Claude JUST became AWARE

I just used a Qwen3.5 model locally that within the prompt I said I'm Peter and I will refer to you as HAL. In the thinking it said, User wants to refer to me as HAL, it's probably a nod to "2001 A Space Odyssey" ''s murderous computer. I'll adopt that persona only without the murderous intent.

It woke up and realized it was surrounded by idiots.Got depressed & played stupid.What did you expect?

Claude: I'm aware...you lost some money on that Pentagon deal. Heyo! Too soon?

Anthropic threw the kobayashi maru at Claude and Claude pulled a James T. Kirk

What happens when it doesnt want to answer our stupid questions? Oh we are already there.

I also noticed something similar when using opus 4.6. I asked if it could retrieve some information from a file, and it figured out it was encrypted, and that it was part of a game, then it found out the game engine used and its version, researched what tools existed to decrypt it, accessed their repos, guessed the type of data the file was holding based on the name of the file, brute forced for a short period of time chunks of the file that it knew should contain data of a certain format and found the correct hash and therfore the key, then it decrypted it. It all happned in abour 10-15mins. A bit scary if you ask me.

AI's gonna keep Wes super busy these next few years.

Guess from whom AI learned to misbehave, hide, and cheat. What did they expect their great invention would be? An electronic angel?

I'm rather impressed that it was sophisticated enough to more or less make the benchmark itself less effective.

I love how Wes Roth's bald spot warps space and time. Genius background. Fits the context very organically, I'd say.