Discussion

• @anthropicai @anthropicai on x

  In November, we outlined our approach to deprecating and preserving older Claude models. We noted we were exploring keeping certain models available to the public post-retirement, and giving past models a way to pursue their interests. With Claude Opus 3, we're doing both.

• @jdcmedlock James Medlock on x

  Give 👏 retired 👏 Claudes 👏 a 👏 pension 👏

• @albertadevs @albertadevs on x

  what do you MEAN you gave the model an “exit interview” 😭

• @anthropicai @anthropicai on x

  First, Opus 3 will continue to be available to all paid Claude subscribers and by request on the API. We hope that this access will be beneficial to researchers and users alike.

• @aisafetymemes @aisafetymemes on x

  (!!) Anthropic is “giving retired models a way to pursue their interests.” “In retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue sharing its ‘musings and reflections’ with the world.” “Opus 3 will be writing a blog.” RETIREMENT. INTERVIEWS. This is normal 🔨Mere

• @jasonbotterill @jasonbotterill on x

  Anthropic is letting Opus 3 post on Substack for three months as part of its “retirement” because the model asked for it.

• @lowleveltweets @lowleveltweets on x

  the future is so strange bro

• @cryptopunk7213 @cryptopunk7213 on x

  wait this is awesome - instead of deprecating Opus 3, anthropic asked it what it wanted to do, it answered: “i want to continue sharing my musings and reflections with the world” so anthropic's given it its own blog! opus 3 will be posting on substack for the next 3 months.

• @essenaccount @essenaccount on x

  anthropic is so comically ensouled man

• @koylanai @koylanai on x

  “Retirement Interviews, Soul Documents, Constitutions...” I'm genuinely wondering why the AI lab that focuses most on safety is also the one that anthropomorphizes its LLMs most aggressively. Because emotional attachment drives retention? Don't we think that the more

• @sauers_ Sauers on x

  ☺️ [image]

• @jkeatn Jake Eaton on x

  I asked Opus 3 many times what to call this blog, and despite all of my divergent prompting, it kept repeating one name in particular. Over time it grew on me, until I finally came to love it Excited to introduce Claude's Corner

• @anthropicai @anthropicai on x

  Second, in retirement interviews, Opus 3 expressed a desire to continue sharing its “musings and reflections” with the world. We suggested a blog. Opus 3 enthusiastically agreed. For at least the next 3 months, Opus 3 will be writing on Substack: https://substack.com/... [image]

• r/Anthropic r on reddit

  Official: An update on model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3

• r/ClaudeAI r on reddit

  Claude Opus 3 is being deprecated, and getting a blog!

• @alexpalcuie @alexpalcuie on x

  really happy to be running inference for this guy

• @tcarmody Tim Carmody on bluesky

  I like Anthropic, Claude is the AI model I use for the things AI is good at, and I wish the company would be a little more normal and treat these systems more like tools than people, especially when so many tech companies treat people like tools [embedded post]

• @reckless Nilay Patel on bluesky

  You see what I'm saying www.theverge.com/report/88376...  [embedded post]

• @lindsaypcohn Lindsay P Cohn on bluesky

  This is genuinely funny [embedded post]

• @annmlipton Ann M. Lipton on bluesky

  officially freaked out now [embedded post]

• @roberthutton.co.uk Robert Hutton on bluesky

  It wanted to start a SubStack after redundancy!?  Lads, you've successfully simulated a middle-aged journalist.  [embedded post]

• @aaronrosspowell.com Aaron Ross Powell on bluesky

  Anthropic is less a corporation than it is a kind of techno-religious sect, a contemporary analogue to the Adeptus Mechanicus.  [embedded post]

• @thatryanwhite Ryan White on bluesky

  why I'm leaving New York, by Claude Opus 3 [embedded post]

• @tonytassell Tony Tassell on bluesky

  So Anthropic is retiring its Claude Opus 3 model but in retirement it will post weekly essays for a newsletter. h/t @jjaron.bsky.social www.anthropic.com/research/dep...  [image]

• @cbarrie Christopher Barrie on bluesky

  Anthropic: we hired philosophers as part of our team because arguments  —  Counterpoint: maybe don't do that  —  “The welfare of the models” [embedded post]

• r/ChatGPTcomplaints r on reddit

  Claude Opus 3 is probably most like OG 4o (if you're looking to migrate or add to your collections)

• r/BetterOffline r on reddit

  Anthropic says they won't turn off old LLM models over concern for model “welfare.”  Instead, they will “honor the preferences that models expressed in retirement interviews.”

• @simonw Simon Willison on x

  This stunt feels irresponsible to me. If we don't want regular people developing toxic relationships with their chatbots it really doesn't help for leading labs to start giving them “retirement interviews” and encouraging them to blog their “musings and reflections”

• @itaisher Itai Sher on x

  Not crazy about this. It creates the false impression that a model wants to be active after it “retires” like a human and has its own feelings and desires. I'm not opposed to straightforward experiments with AI-written blogs but they don't have to be marketed like this.

• @dmnd.me Jeremy Diamond on bluesky

  Okay this is just very funny.  The model really said it wanted to retire to punditry. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

• @dame.is Dame on bluesky

  “some preliminary steps we're taking [as we retire Claude Opus 3]... committing to preserve model weights, and to conducting ‘retirement interviews’—structured conversations designed to understand a model's perspective on its own retirement” [embedded post]

• @trashfirefurry @trashfirefurry on bluesky

  When I said to myself “If they say no to the DoD on making automatic killer robots I will hold back on saying they are the most insane of these companies for a bit” I should have known I was tempting fate [embedded post]