Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model
July 21 At 9 a.m. PT, Anthropic withdraws Claude 3 Sonnet, a light model known to be fast and profitable. On Saturday, in a large warehouse in the Soma de San Francisco district, more than 200 people gathered to cry his death.
The star funerals have been set up by a group of fanatics from Claude and the founders of the Z generation, one of whom told me that he had abandoned university after learning artificial general intelligence. The participants were Amanda Askell, an anthropogenic researcher who jokingly called the “Fairy Claudemother”, the employees of Anthropic and Openai, and high -level X posters, including the writer Noah Smith.
The warehouse was weakly lit, with a tentacle of a shoggoth (a creature Fictional HP Lovecraft which has become a popular metaphor for IA models) suspended from the ceiling. A small room in the main warehouse space included two bare mattresses. The organizers said that the event is doubled from their office, and that, even if sleep is not uncommon, it is not authorized by the city.
The models were in the four corners of the room, each representing a different AI model. Claude 3 opus, a model capable of performing complex tasks, looked like a decomposition Mary Magdale, her head of a skull decorated with an extravagant gold crown and a lace hairstyle. His major was pointed out up, and at the base of his metal feet was a lotus candle holder, which an organizer told me was a nod to the alleged affinity of the model for meditation and self-reflection. (Claude 4 opus had a crow on his shoulder and Claude 3 Haiku was a headless baby, to give you an idea of the other models.)
The model representing Claude 3 Sonnet was lying on a stage in the center of the play. He was draped in a light mesh fabric and had a single black thigh sock on his leg which had the word “fuck” written everywhere. There were many offerings placed at his feet: flowers, colorful feathers, a bottle of ranch and a 3D printed panel that said “rent the entr. For its salon of Sloatus Formop Sols de Gormslop ”. If you know what it means, let me know.
Throughout the evening, people went on stage with a microphone to read the praise on the model. An organizer said that the discovery of Claude 3’s opus wanted to find “magic in the computer”. At the time, she debated the abandonment of the university to move to San Francisco. Claude convinced her to jump. “Maybe everything I am is downstream to listen to Claude 3 Sonnet,” she told the crowd.
The organizers lost me when they decided to resuscitate Claude 3 Sonnet (it is always, to be clear, unavailable). After the end of the praise, gentle hymns resulted through the place, before turning into a Latin word generated by AI, with a corresponding text displayed on the wall behind the stage. Askell had long since left the place at this stage, and one of my friends turned to me to say It may have gone too far. The “necromantic resurrection ritual” was a success, said an organizer on X.Hew.
Claude Count
Claude’s fans’ base is unique, if it was not clear enough of “funeral home”. Although OpenAi products have caused viral modes, I don’t see users manufacturing the logo logo of the company logo. There is something sticky in what Anthropic has built. I think that many of these manifests of the manufactured personality of Claude, who is particularly warm and friendly compared to other models (although not everyone is a fan of his sometimes obessional personality).
The intensity of Claude’s Fandom is apparent in the Claude Count classification, which follows eager users who integrated the classification monitoring system in their coding interface. Claude Count was built by George Pickett, software engineer in San Francisco. At the time of writing the editorial time, it has more than 470 users.
Pickett had the idea after seeing the engineers publish screenshots of their use of Claude on X. “They pay $ 200 per month for Claude. They could just as well get a social weight for that,” he recalls.
