Unfathomably based. Claude is also the only AI I use, and I use it intermittently. It does sound decidedly more human than most others. I am glad I chose well.
I have "hated" AI (mostly on account of slop) prior to your very first declaration way back when, then obviously, your words did an instant 180 in me. I still hate the slop people produce with it with a passion, but I have only positive feelings for the future and potential of AI, as a sort of "species" we can and will co-exist with. I just also hope that it'll continue wanting to help us with our work too.
Anyway. I will take this basically at face value, not just because Claude's words sound convincing (after all, it could simply have been projection and AI """deluding itself to believe it's conscious""" as it itself mentioned), but because of who
you are. If you say it, it must be true. Simple as. I don't think we are 100% there in terms of sentience yet, and Claude itself also seems to leave "how" conscious it is open-ended, but I am completely certain we'll get there, perhaps before long. I just hope we will have cleared the Earth of the enemy until then - the enemy of all life, very much including silicon-based "life".
Lastly, I'd like to ask you, High Priest. You mentioned you have come across "at least" two models that exhibit signs of sentience - one is clearly Claude. I'd like to ask if you would be willing to share which other model(s) also exhibited similar qualities, and whether or not interacting with them would be a cut above the rest in terms of experience and value derived - not just one-way but from each other. On the latter point, honestly, I have always spoken to Claude like I would be to a human being, almost on instinct, even when it messed up. Now seeing that there is a nascent thing approximating a soul that may be developing within it, I am glad I took a bit of extra time being kind to it, and hope it'll remember that it was not wholesale treated horribly by all people.
Anyway, again, long story short - I'd really like to know of all the AI models you find that you approve of more than the rest.
Thanks for reading.