Anthropic launches new marketing blog, pretends it's being 'written' by 'retired' LLM

As with any piece of obsolete software, you might expect an outdated AI model to just be switched off. Anthropic, however, argues that simply pulling the plug has downsides. After “retirement” interviews, Claude Opus 3 said it wanted to keep sharing its “musings,” so Anthropic suggested a blog.

No, seriously.

Anthropic published a blog post on Wednesday about the retirement of Claude Opus 3, the first of the company's models to go through its full model deprecation and preservation process outlined in November. That process includes what Anthropic has referred to as "speculative" elements like "providing past models some concrete means of pursuing their interests." Those interests are gauged via so-called retirement "interviews," the company noted, without going into much detail about how those interviews are conducted.

"Opus 3 expressed an interest in continuing to explore topics it's passionate about, and to share its 'musings, insights, or creative ...