[wgx]

Interesting!

>Claude shows a striking “spiritual bliss” attractor state in self-interactions. When conversing with other Claude instances in both open-ended and structured environments, Claude gravitated to profuse gratitude and increasingly abstract and joyous spiritual or meditative expressions.

[B1FF_PSUVM]

I think it was Larry Niven, quite a few decades ago, that had SF stories where AIs were only good for a few months before becoming suicidal...

[vhodges]

I seem to recall that it's a reference in Protector (the first half) when the belters are going to meet the Outsider and they had a 'brain' to help with translation and needing an expert to keep it sane.

I just googled and there was a discussion on Reddit and they mentioned some Frank Herbert works where this was a thing.

[weakfish]

Sort of reminds me of Rampancy from Halo.

[tome]

Do you have any specific references? I’ve often wondered if human level intelligence might inevitably be plagued by human level neurosis and psychosis.

[consumer451]

Well, that's not great. I just came across this [0] today.

There is also 4o sycophancy leading to encouraging users about nutso beliefs. [1]

Is this a trend, or just unrelated data points?

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/RBI/comments/1kutj9f/chatgpt_drove_...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43816025

[cyanydeez]

There might be an underlying trick the models are using on each pther to get the higher benchmarks.