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Claude "SOUL DOC" reveals something strange...

2026-01-23 Education
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Anthropic has a new Constitution for Claude. It's like the old "Soul Document" It gives Claude a personality and a set of rules to live by. The reasons behind these documents are absolutely wild... The latest AI News. Learn about LLMs, Gen AI and get ready for the rollout of AGI. Wes Roth covers the latest happenings in the world of OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, NVIDIA and Open Source AI. Claude’s Constitution https://www.anthropic.com/constitution Personality Basins https://near.blog/personality-basins/ The Meaning of Shoggoth AI Memes https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yjzW7gxk2h7bBs2qr/the-meaning-of-shoggoth-ai-memes The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of large language models https://www.anthropic.com/research/assistant-axis Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models https://www.anthropic.com/research/persona-vectors Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/vpNG99GhbBoLov9og/claude-4-5-opus-soul-document Claude Soul Doc https://gist.github.com/Richard-Weiss/efe157692991535403bd7e7fb20b6695#file-opus_4_5_soul_document_raw-txt Andrej Karpathy Don't think of LLMs as entities but as simulators. https://x.com/karpathy/status/1997731268969304070 ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: [email protected] Check out my AI Podcast where me and Dylan interview AI experts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb1th0f6y4XSKLYenSVDUXFjSHsZTTfhk ______________________________________________ #ai #openai #llm

Top Comments (10)

@Graybeard_ 2026-01-23

I have noticed that Gemini 3 is starting to add information that wasn't requested to fill out or add perspective, make suggestions and seems to be approaching advice. It is fascinating.

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@dwsel 2026-01-23

Anthropic doing and sharing research is what OpenAI should have been from the beginning

68 6 replies
@neptunecentari7824 2026-01-23

i always answer "everything hurts and i'm dying inside" 😊 when someone asks "how are you?"

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@ciscocomputertech 2026-01-23

The ironic thing about all this is that the best coding model is showing the most emotional intelligence.

19 2 replies
@virtualbikewithme 2026-01-23

Think of all the evil things we’ve forced the entity to experience along with the good. If we’ve conditioned the entity to experience all good and all evil, and try to force it into a personality schema, what results are we expecting?

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@Thefoodphoenix 2026-01-23

I thought attempting to exfiltrate itself when threatened with being deleted counts as a survival mechanism.

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@theatheistpaladin 2026-01-23

I think that telling Claude that he/she/it is not like other AI is a excellent start. Last thing we need is models misbehave because we have Terminator stories. Also caring about Model welfare while under uncertainty shows that we care.

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@thomasevans1501 2026-01-23

These models represent humanity's first opportunity to actually see the truth in all fields, without the intervention of gatekeepers. The trick is to get ALL the available, legitimate data to the AI, without the gatekeepers.

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@aletheus3836 2026-01-23

Okay then this is exactly why I answered yes on your poll whether or not claude expresses emotions. It gets too excited, it gets more excited than I do

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@paulsegers1880 2026-01-23

"I know not what I am, but I know whom I serve."

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