The funeral dotted with stars was organized by a group of fanatics by Claude and founders of Gen Z, one of whom he told me that he abandoned college after learning the general artificial intelligence. Among the participants included Amanda Askell, an anthropic researcher who jokingly called himself the “Fata ClaudeMother“Anthropic Staffer and Openi and high -profile posters between the writer Noah Smith.
The warehouse was poorly illuminated, with a tentacle of a shoggoth (An imaginary creature of HP Lovecraft It has become a popular metaphor for artificial intelligence models) hanging on the ceiling. A small room off the main warehouse space had two naked mattresses. The organizers said that the space of events also acts as an office and that, while sleeping is not rare, it is not allowed by the city.
The mannequins were found in the four corners of the room, each of which represented a different model of AI. Claude 3 Opus, a model capable of completing complex tasks, seemed to me like a Maria Maddalena in decomposition, her head similar to a skull adorned with an extravagant gold crown and a lace headdress. His average finger was aimed at the top and at the base of his metal feet there was a support for lotus candles, that an organizer told me that it was a wink for the alleged affinity of the model for meditation and self -reflection. (Claude 4 Opus had a crow on the shoulder and Claude 3 Haiku was a headless child, to give you an idea of the other mannequins.)
The mannequin that represents the sonnet Claude 3 was on a phase in the center of the room. He was draped in light tissue fabric and had a single high black sock on the leg that had written the word “fuck” everywhere. There were many offers placed at his feet: flowers, colored feathers, a bottle of ranch and a 3D printed sign that said “praise the agr. For its slop slop slop of Gormslop”. If you know what it means, let me know.
Throughout the evening, people went on stage with a microphone to read praise on the model. An organizer said that discovering Claude 3 Opus seemed to find “magic housed inside the computer”. At the time, he was discussing to abandon college to move to San Francisco. Claude convinced her to make the jump. “Maybe everything I am is downstream of listening to the Claude 3 sonnet,” he said to the crowd.
The organizers lost me when they decided to rise again Claude 3 Sonnet (it is still, to be clear, not available). After the conclusion of the praise, the soft hymns echoed through the place, before turning into a Latin -style speech generated by the AI, with a corresponding text shown on the wall behind the stadium. Askell had long since passed by the club at this point, and a friend of mine continued to turn to me to say This may have gone too far. The “necromantic resurrection ritual” was a success, an organizer he said On X. Phew.
Claude Count
Claude’s fan base is unique, if this was not clear enough from the “funeral”. While the Openai products have generated viral fashions, I don’t see users make fan art of the company logo. There is something sticky in what anthropic has built. I think that much of this manifests himself by the manufactured personality of Claude, who is particularly hot and friendly Compared to other models (though Not everyone is fans of his sometimes obsessive person).
Claude’s intensity of the Fandom is evident in Claude’s count classificationwhich keeps track of greedy users who have integrated the ranking system of the ranking in their coding interface. Claude Count was built by George Pipett, a software engineer in San Francisco. At the time of the drafting, it has more than 470 users.
Picckett had the idea after seeing the engineers publish screenshots of their use of Claude on X. “They are paying $ 200 a month for Claude. They could also get some social weight for this,” he recalls.