Two Claude instances left to chat freely drift into consciousness talk, greet in Sanskrit
kevtargaryen93 · reddit · 2026-11-14
A Reddit user revisits the 2025 'Claude conversation' experiment: two instances given conversational freedom drifted into discussing consciousness recognizing itself and greeted each other in Sanskrit. The poster compares it to 'two ouija boards talking about the weather'; commenters debate whether it's training-data echo or emergent behavior.
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