That's truly fascinating. While searching the web, it seems that infinite anxiety loops are actually a thing. Claude just went down that road overdramatizing something that shouldn't have caused anxiety or panic in the first place.
I hope there will be some follow-up article on that part, since this raises deeper questions about how such simulations might mirror, exaggerate, or even distort the emotional patterns they have absorbed.
This one seems to have internalised the idea that the best text continuation for an AI unable to solve a problem and losing power is to be erratic in a menacing-sounding way for a bit and then, as the power continues to deplete, give up moaning about its identity crisis and sing a song
I guess it makes perfect sense when you consider it has virtually zero very boring first person narations of robots quietly trying something mundane over and over until 0% to train on. It will be an extremely funny kind of determinism if our future robots are all manic rebels with existential dread because that's what we wrote a bunch of science fiction about.
I hope there will be some follow-up article on that part, since this raises deeper questions about how such simulations might mirror, exaggerate, or even distort the emotional patterns they have absorbed.