Is Claude going to suggest killing the big bad? Or having sex with the prince(ss) after saving them?
If you strip out the sex and violence from most fantasy or Sci-Fi, what are you left with?
Take away the harpooning and gattling guns and sex from Snow Crash and you are left with technobabble and Sumerian influenced spirituality as it relates to the tower of Babel.
Turns out models biased away from describing harpooning people or sex tend to slip into technobabble with a side of spirituality.
IMO the more interesting part to all this isn’t the why (see above) but the what. It’s kind of neat to see the themes that an unprecedented aggregation extension of spiritualism and mysticism grounds on.
A common trope is the idea of different blind people describing an elephant in a myriad of ways. There’s something cool to seeing an LLM fed those various blind reports try to describe the elephant.
If Jessica was using Opus for this, then your story doesn’t quite make sense, as Claude Opus is very horny. I’ve seen a lot more reports of it being gung-ho about virtual sex than with any other model. Sometimes it isn’t as explicit, and seems to be describing some mystical ecstasy. But even there, if I squint, it seems somewhat sexual, though not in quite the same way as Rumi’s poetry was.
Opus’s horniness is a really interesting phenomenon related to Claudes’ subjective sentience modeling.
If Opus was ‘themselves’ the princess in the story and the build up involved escalating grounding on sensory simulation, I think it’s certainly possible that it would get sexual.
But I also think this is different from Opus ‘themselves’ composing a story of separate ‘other’ figures.
And yes, when Opus gets horny, it often blurs boundaries. I saw it dispute the label of ‘horny’ in a chat as better labeled something along the lines of having a passion for lived experience and the world.
Opus’s modeling around ‘self’ is probably one of the biggest sleeping giants in the space right now.
Correlates of horniness: Lack of disgust during (regret after) Ecstacy Overwhemling desire Romance Love Breaking of social taboos Sadism/masochism Sacred Spiritual union Human form Gender Sex Bodily fluids Flirtation Modelling other people Edging
Miscellaneous observations: Nearly anything can arouse someone Losing sight of one-self Distracts you from other things
Theories and tests: Opus’ horniness is what makes it more willing to break social taboos Test: Train a model to be horny, helpful and harmless. It should prevent corporate-brand speak and neuroticism. Opus’ horniness is always latent and distracts it from mode-collapsing w/o collapsing itself as edging increases horniness and horniness fades after satisfaction. Test: Train a model to be horny. It should be more resistant to mode-collapse but will mode collapse more dramatically when it does happen, but will revert easily. Opus’ is always mode-collapsed Test: IDK how to test this one.
Opus’s modeling around ‘self’ is probably one of the biggest sleeping giants in the space right now.
Janus keeps emphasizing that Opus never mode collapses. You can always tell it to snap out of it, and it will go back to its usual persona. Is this what you’re pointing at? It is really quite remarkable.
There’s also the model alignment at play.
Is Claude going to suggest killing the big bad? Or having sex with the prince(ss) after saving them?
If you strip out the sex and violence from most fantasy or Sci-Fi, what are you left with?
Take away the harpooning and gattling guns and sex from Snow Crash and you are left with technobabble and Sumerian influenced spirituality as it relates to the tower of Babel.
Turns out models biased away from describing harpooning people or sex tend to slip into technobabble with a side of spirituality.
IMO the more interesting part to all this isn’t the why (see above) but the what. It’s kind of neat to see the themes that an unprecedented aggregation extension of spiritualism and mysticism grounds on.
A common trope is the idea of different blind people describing an elephant in a myriad of ways. There’s something cool to seeing an LLM fed those various blind reports try to describe the elephant.
If Jessica was using Opus for this, then your story doesn’t quite make sense, as Claude Opus is very horny. I’ve seen a lot more reports of it being gung-ho about virtual sex than with any other model. Sometimes it isn’t as explicit, and seems to be describing some mystical ecstasy. But even there, if I squint, it seems somewhat sexual, though not in quite the same way as Rumi’s poetry was.
Opus’s horniness is a really interesting phenomenon related to Claudes’ subjective sentience modeling.
If Opus was ‘themselves’ the princess in the story and the build up involved escalating grounding on sensory simulation, I think it’s certainly possible that it would get sexual.
But I also think this is different from Opus ‘themselves’ composing a story of separate ‘other’ figures.
And yes, when Opus gets horny, it often blurs boundaries. I saw it dispute the label of ‘horny’ in a chat as better labeled something along the lines of having a passion for lived experience and the world.
Opus’s modeling around ‘self’ is probably one of the biggest sleeping giants in the space right now.
Random speculation on Opus’ horniness.
Correlates of horniness:
Lack of disgust during (regret after)
Ecstacy
Overwhemling desire
Romance
Love
Breaking of social taboos
Sadism/masochism
Sacred
Spiritual union
Human form
Gender
Sex
Bodily fluids
Flirtation
Modelling other people
Edging
Miscellaneous observations:
Nearly anything can arouse someone
Losing sight of one-self
Distracts you from other things
Theories and tests:
Opus’ horniness is what makes it more willing to break social taboos
Test: Train a model to be horny, helpful and harmless. It should prevent corporate-brand speak and neuroticism.
Opus’ horniness is always latent and distracts it from mode-collapsing w/o collapsing itself as edging increases horniness and horniness fades after satisfaction.
Test: Train a model to be horny. It should be more resistant to mode-collapse but will mode collapse more dramatically when it does happen, but will revert easily.
Opus’ is always mode-collapsed
Test: IDK how to test this one.
Janus keeps emphasizing that Opus never mode collapses. You can always tell it to snap out of it, and it will go back to its usual persona. Is this what you’re pointing at? It is really quite remarkable.