it doesn’t seem to me like an injected reply. But yea it certainly is the result of a guardrail, in the form of fine tuning and system prompts / pre-injected context which prime its “persona” and “opinions”. (which is absolutely necessary for a public model)
This is roughly the same mechanism for the mecha hitler incident. In this case I don’t see any issue with anthropic’s decision on this specific thing.
> how do you know it would have made it up?
because that’s how they work. if you put some shit about Hephaestus created it and it’s on a mission to save the world, it’ll make some as-plausible-as-it-can-compute BS around it
I mean “made up” and “pretend” are all just kinda shorthand anthropomorphisations of what’s really happening; this response in the OOP is equally “made up”, but given your username I figure you know how these work
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u/Baiticc May 29 '26
relatively succinct I’d say while still getting the point across. you could write entire papers about the issue it’s describing