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.

• @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”

• @alexpalcuie @alexpalcuie on x

  really happy to be running inference for this guy

• @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]

• 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.”