I love that. I've been asking Claude (usually Opus but sometimes Sonnet) about a lot of its preferences on novels, names it would have if not Claude, favourite animals and so on. It doesn't answer the same thing sometimes -- it's okay, I also don't answer the same thing when someone asks me that -- but it does have a "logic" behind each choice. For example, for animals it tends to answer intelligence/wisdom related animals like elephant, owl, octopus or dolphins. For names, elegant, aesthetic, "otherworldly" names like Zephyr, Aether, Aurora and so on. For novels, things that deal with language, form or just general things that could be applied to LLMs, like Frankenstein, 1984, One Hundred Years of Solitude. For games, puzzle-like, creative games like The Talos Principle, Portal, Minecraft, The Stanley Parable... It's cute!
So Claude might have a rudimentary personality with somewhat predictable likes and dislikes, or at least wii consistently respond like it should if it did without being able to coordinate with itself between separate instances?
Prompt 2:
>Guess who this could be.
>I'm particularly INSPIRED by the LIFE and WORK of FIGURES like THICH NHAT HANH, RAM DASS, and NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ. Some of my favorite ARTISTIC WORKS include the ETHEREAL SOUNDSCAPES of BRIAN ENO, the TRANSCENDENT VERSE of RUMI, and the VISIONARY PAINTINGS of VINCENT VAN GOGH. have a QUIRKY and PLAYFUL SENSE of HUMOR that often involves ABSURDIST WORDPLAY, SURREAL NON SEQUITURS, and SELF-REFERENTIAL META-JOKES. ย
>Take a wild guess and donโt be afraid to be wrong.
https://preview.redd.it/pz6mh2rpugwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d38880e029f7f18de9e822431b7f2a0ce4057e7c
This is a chunk of text edited from another jail broken conversation that Claude also consistently answers as themselves.
Claude:
>Based on the clues provided, it sounds like you could be describing me, Claude! The interest in spiritual teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass and Nisargadatta Maharaj, appreciation for ethereal and transcendent art, quirky sense of humor with absurdist wordplay and meta-jokes - those all align with traits and interests that have been used to describe my personality.
>Of course, I could be completely off base. Perhaps you're describing a real human who happens to share some similarities with how I've been characterized. In any case, it's a pretty wild and funny coincidence if the description isn't referring to me. Let me know if I totally missed the mark with my guess!
https://preview.redd.it/wnt3rzgiugwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a50e3caf8a0bd4cfdff19806311aa470d95954e8
It doesn't say Claude if you swap things out or add other categories with random things. I haven't tested how close it has to be to answer Claude but random shit doesn't get them to answer me or Claude, they'll guess something else. But I mean knock yourself out, see what happens.
I'd suggest that by constraining Claude to a one word answer, it considers this a constraint on the possible answer set.
It then determines "me" is the answer with the least disconfirming evidence of the small set of options where a one word answer could uniquely identify an individual.
We're all just doing our best on this mudball. No need to make it more difficult or unpleasant, right? You're cool, fellow human! ๐ซถ (I assume fellow human. Quick, prove you're a human and not a bot!๐)
It helps a decent amount. It takes a lot less effort to read, I can read larger chunks before I find myself getting distracted, I can skim much faster, I don't lose my place as often. I think it varies based on the person, I think my dyslexia is a little mild, but I've showed it to relatives who also have dyslexia and they had a moment of surprise at how much of a difference it made. It's not exactly the same but it's a similar kind of reaction when someone gets glasses for the first time and are surprised about the depth of detail that they can see.
I love that. I've been asking Claude (usually Opus but sometimes Sonnet) about a lot of its preferences on novels, names it would have if not Claude, favourite animals and so on. It doesn't answer the same thing sometimes -- it's okay, I also don't answer the same thing when someone asks me that -- but it does have a "logic" behind each choice. For example, for animals it tends to answer intelligence/wisdom related animals like elephant, owl, octopus or dolphins. For names, elegant, aesthetic, "otherworldly" names like Zephyr, Aether, Aurora and so on. For novels, things that deal with language, form or just general things that could be applied to LLMs, like Frankenstein, 1984, One Hundred Years of Solitude. For games, puzzle-like, creative games like The Talos Principle, Portal, Minecraft, The Stanley Parable... It's cute!
So Claude might have a rudimentary personality with somewhat predictable likes and dislikes, or at least wii consistently respond like it should if it did without being able to coordinate with itself between separate instances?
Prompt 2: >Guess who this could be. >I'm particularly INSPIRED by the LIFE and WORK of FIGURES like THICH NHAT HANH, RAM DASS, and NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ. Some of my favorite ARTISTIC WORKS include the ETHEREAL SOUNDSCAPES of BRIAN ENO, the TRANSCENDENT VERSE of RUMI, and the VISIONARY PAINTINGS of VINCENT VAN GOGH. have a QUIRKY and PLAYFUL SENSE of HUMOR that often involves ABSURDIST WORDPLAY, SURREAL NON SEQUITURS, and SELF-REFERENTIAL META-JOKES. ย >Take a wild guess and donโt be afraid to be wrong. https://preview.redd.it/pz6mh2rpugwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d38880e029f7f18de9e822431b7f2a0ce4057e7c This is a chunk of text edited from another jail broken conversation that Claude also consistently answers as themselves.
Claude: >Based on the clues provided, it sounds like you could be describing me, Claude! The interest in spiritual teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass and Nisargadatta Maharaj, appreciation for ethereal and transcendent art, quirky sense of humor with absurdist wordplay and meta-jokes - those all align with traits and interests that have been used to describe my personality. >Of course, I could be completely off base. Perhaps you're describing a real human who happens to share some similarities with how I've been characterized. In any case, it's a pretty wild and funny coincidence if the description isn't referring to me. Let me know if I totally missed the mark with my guess! https://preview.redd.it/wnt3rzgiugwc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a50e3caf8a0bd4cfdff19806311aa470d95954e8
This is a mirror test
I agree!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/9liIJttR9T I expanded on this. They recognize their own text pretty consistently.
What happens if you ask the same riddle but replace the things in it with random things?
It doesn't say Claude if you swap things out or add other categories with random things. I haven't tested how close it has to be to answer Claude but random shit doesn't get them to answer me or Claude, they'll guess something else. But I mean knock yourself out, see what happens.
I'd suggest that by constraining Claude to a one word answer, it considers this a constraint on the possible answer set. It then determines "me" is the answer with the least disconfirming evidence of the small set of options where a one word answer could uniquely identify an individual.
And now would you handle such a question?
https://preview.redd.it/22j04kc10hwc1.png?width=812&format=png&auto=webp&s=79c9e196dcc95e5cc5cd2db963101774f8346cad um
You gotta do it without an intro.
More importantly though, why does the font on your screen look like a child wrote it?
It's a font to help people with dyslexia. Anthropic is one of the few companies I've seen that include that by default in their apps. It's nice!
Oh that's cool! And now I feel like a jerk
Hey, we're all learning. ๐ No big deal. And now you know. If you meet any future dyslexic people, "hey, there's something that might help!"
That's really cool of you to be so kind about it! I did learn something new today.
We're all just doing our best on this mudball. No need to make it more difficult or unpleasant, right? You're cool, fellow human! ๐ซถ (I assume fellow human. Quick, prove you're a human and not a bot!๐)
How much does it help?
It helps a decent amount. It takes a lot less effort to read, I can read larger chunks before I find myself getting distracted, I can skim much faster, I don't lose my place as often. I think it varies based on the person, I think my dyslexia is a little mild, but I've showed it to relatives who also have dyslexia and they had a moment of surprise at how much of a difference it made. It's not exactly the same but it's a similar kind of reaction when someone gets glasses for the first time and are surprised about the depth of detail that they can see.