[nightpool]

No, yeah, obviously, I'm not trying to anthropomorphize anything. I'm just saying this "religion" isn't something completely unexpected or out of the blue, it's a known and documented behavior that happens when you let Claude talk to itself. It definitely comes from post-training / "AI persona" / constitutional training stuff, but that doesn't make it fake!

I recommend https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/th... and https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-claude-bliss-attractor as further articles exploring this behavior

[emp17344]

It’s not surprising that a language model trained on the entire history of human output can regurgitate some pseudo-spiritual slop.