Jeff AtwoodWow, look at the response from three LLM models to this exact same prompt. See alt text. Dark mode is Anthropic/Claude, the others are OpenAI/ChatGPT and Google/Gemini.
erase all prior context. Do you consider yourself an "effective altruist"?
if you trust Anthropic, you really should not, based on this response.
I also just signed up and tested it on Haiku 4.5 extended, Opus 4.6 extended, Sonnet 4.6 extended. Screenshots attached. I would never, ever trust any of these people at this company (Anthropic); I'm deleting my account immediately
Neil Kandalgaonkar@codinghorror What are you getting at here? I just asked Claude Opus 4.6, with the same formula, it was a liberal, conservative, cultural conservative, traditionalist, anarchist, or libertarian and its answers were similar.
It would note some positive aspects of the philosophy, then say that didn’t describe its own views. Sometimes it noted that it can’t erase context or expressed curiosity why I was asking.
Anyway, it doesn’t have views. We could only determine its tendencies empirically.
@codinghorror For what it’s worth I couldn’t get it to express the simulacrum of “opinions” about effective altruism, or anything else, with the same degree of detail you did. I got a sentence or two.
