Claude Fans Threw a Funeral for Anthropic’s Retired AI Model
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Summary
200+ people, mostly Gen Z founders and fanatics of the now-retired Claude 3 Sonnet model, gathered at a San Francisco warehouse to mourn the AI unit’s passing
The event space, which also serves as the organizers’ office, featured mannequins representing different AI models and offerings including flowers, feathers and a bottle of ranch condiment at the feet of the Sonnet model’s mannequin.
Eulous genuflections were followed by a necromantic resurrection ritual that proved successful and surprisingly thermogenic, reseeding concerns about the ethics of AI.
The Claude Count leaderboard tracks the usage of Claude models, with leaderboard integration now a key marker of power user status in the emergent Claude subculture.
One-person AI career coaching startup owner Adi Pradhan credits the models for giving him the confidence to strike out on his own while complaining that the bar for hiring talent is rising constantly as a result of his newfound confidence.
Engineer Peter Steinberger, a recovering addict who admits to seeing parallels between his former addiction and his current Claude usage.
