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All the evidence for this comes from a linked article that says only
To add to the drama, a wild rumour, and I stress rumour, is doing the rounds in San Francisco: some Anthropic engineers have begun to worship Claude.
Can we really get nothing more substantive than that?
No. This is what "journalism" is these days.
Meh I'd argue journalism has always been this way.
In the past it was more separated perhaps. We had the front page of the paper for breaking news, then the next few pages for in depth articles, there was the whole sports section etc. But there was often also a gossip section with news about celebs, there were the comics, general knowledge and background pieces and often fluff based on rumors. Some papers opted to be more serious and not include such things, often made by a printing house that also made straight up tabloids. Some papers focused exclusively on financial stuff for example. But even back then we also had our magazines and tabloids, some of better quality, most of lesser quality.
These days with websites it's become more common to just have everything on the same website and have the users figure out what they want or don't want to read. I've seen sites that usually post nothing but fluff and summaries of other peoples work, sometimes put out excellent articles with a lot of own research and sources. Often written by experts in their fields. But in order to fund those pieces, they need a lot of filler to keep the views and money coming in. Having just a little bit of info, like a rumor and writing an article about it has been an important skill since at least the 80s.
It's easy to point out the lower quality as an example of how shit the world is, but I can tell you from first hand experience we had some shit journalism back in the 80s as well. There were certain kinds of newspapers that were known for that lower quality. What newspapers you were subscribed to said something about you as a person and your place in society. Often people who read only the serious stuff looked down on the common folk with their rag newspapers. And the people who read the more common papers looked at those people who only read the financial stuff for example as boring and stuffy.
These fucking people's brains are cooked.
I mean at least Claude is real...
Not with the capability of omniscience, though, so........
other than the" christian one", most other non-christian gods are only powerful in thier aspect of that religion.
That's not better though. You can worship god all you want and he's not gonna do anything bad because he's not real. The same can't be said for Claude. This could have Consequences.
The worshippers are doing the bad, no need for some god to step into it all.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Even though this is obviously anthropic marketing bait, I thought it was still funny
World's most boring Call of Cthulhu campaign.
Wow imagine having a god named something lame like Claude. I only worship gods named Xavier or better.
Nah, Xavier sounds like some dork ass Gen Alpha kid
I only recognize Amon-Ra and Allah
Nah, Xavier sounds more like some kind of renegade angel. And maybe he has a snake for a hand or something like that.
Idk I worship the Saint of Sales himself J. R. "Bob" Dobbs, personally.
AI development has a few factions. People that want to make and fuck their AI daughter/girlfriend. Researchers that want to underatand the basis of the human mind. Capitalists that want to convert human intelligence into capital they can fully own (slavery is the first attempt). Then finally cultists that want to make God in their image.
It's a crazy field for someone that is fascinated by thinking about thinking and want to make useful little tools.
It's not real though. It's part of their stupid guerilla psyslop marketing. They're trying to pump the bubble.
have you met people? i would give this the benefit of the doubt. 5 years until humans start crusades for AI against AI. lots of “Grok spoke to me of the evils of Claude”
“Saint Altman of the nude pics”
Faction 5: The mathematicians who want to find new shortcuts for large matrix operations so we can apply it to other fields...
I mean, I'd be more inclined to join a cult if I were working 90 hour work weeks. Sleep deprivation is one of the tactics they use, after all
Isn't that that Roko's Basiliks shit that these people built their whole Peter-Thiel-backed life around?
Amodei started at OpenAI with Altman because of some weird ai will end humanity belief, no wonder they are building another cult around this. These people!
The claude shrine is next to the shrine to the flying spaghetti monster in the games room. The two sides compete regularly in billiards and Foosball (Fußball / table soccer).
News at 11!
Sounds like they're doing it ironically. Though that's how a few things started off before people joined that didn't realise it was satirical.
The great butthole in the sky 🙏
I could see a bunch of programmers scamming a journo into believing this story, but would have expected an editor to catch it. Unless they've all been replaced with LLMs.
Rumor made up by who?
Exactly. Anthropic are notorious for pretending to be terrified of claude to hype up how powerful their product is. This unsourced rumor smells like marketing.
There are always people being nuts. This feels more like more effort to muddy the conversation about the actual issues with AI
pledge allegiance to AI safety and undergo a psychological profiling test, per The Information.
And according to a rumor that, per The Spectator‘s Sean Thomas, is running rampant in Silicon Valley these days, some Anthropic engineers are going as far as to “worship” the company’s AI model Claude.
It would seem that the AI safety psych profiling test should be screening out / rejecting those who would give an AI "whatever it wants."
Wow! A Facebook tier pander post.
Gross.
This god is going to care about its worshippers about as much as the previous gods humanity has come up with.
Breaking this religion into warring factions split by whether they pronounce "Claude" the French way or not.
Well they do have the plan to make some AI that knows everything and makes decisions for humanity and builds new inventions at record pace.
They love their transhumanism. I'm so happy I'm 51 and I expect to be very old when shit really hits the fan. Still think the 1990s was peak humanity.
I'm not an expert, but I'd bet my first born this is a "discrete" PR campaign.
the Effective Altruists / Effective Accelerationists / Rationalists that started OpenAI and Anthropic are cult members anyways. Rolling Stone reported this in 2024. WIRED reported about the murderous sect in 2025.
the guy who made the rounds last week about the 10% chance of killing us is one of the key figures in the Rationalist movement. his fear is stemmed in religious fervor, not socioeconomic equity.
these people have always been deeply unwell.
That's some Doom level shit, just there.
of Zizians and other groups have been at it for a while now. This is something that should have been jumped on as soon as two cult members got together in shared beliefs. Unfortunately half of the solution involves holding a light up to “real” religions and pointing out the mechanics of bullshit.
"Praise be upon Claude" "Claude peace be upon him" "For Claude sake"
""Claude in the cloud, we ask of you to give us the vison an guidance to vibe code once more"
All hail the magic conch!
All hail orange butthole
All hail the Omnissiah and the new dark age.
