All the evidence for this comes from a linked article that says only
To add to the drama, a wild rumour, and I stress rumour, is doing the rounds in San Francisco: some Anthropic engineers have begun to worship Claude.
Can we really get nothing more substantive than that?
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
These fucking people's brains are cooked.
Even though this is obviously anthropic marketing bait, I thought it was still funny
World's most boring Call of Cthulhu campaign.
Wow imagine having a god named something lame like Claude. I only worship gods named Xavier or better.
AI development has a few factions. People that want to make and fuck their AI daughter/girlfriend. Researchers that want to underatand the basis of the human mind. Capitalists that want to convert human intelligence into capital they can fully own (slavery is the first attempt). Then finally cultists that want to make God in their image.
It's a crazy field for someone that is fascinated by thinking about thinking and want to make useful little tools.
"RAM FOR THE RAM GOD!"
I mean, I'd be more inclined to join a cult if I were working 90 hour work weeks. Sleep deprivation is one of the tactics they use, after all
I could see a bunch of programmers scamming a journo into believing this story, but would have expected an editor to catch it. Unless they've all been replaced with LLMs.
There are always people being nuts. This feels more like more effort to muddy the conversation about the actual issues with AI
Rumor made up by who?
The claude shrine is next to the shrine to the flying spaghetti monster in the games room. The two sides compete regularly in billiards and Foosball (Fußball / table soccer).
News at 11!
The great butthole in the sky 🙏
the Effective Altruists / Effective Accelerationists / Rationalists that started OpenAI and Anthropic are cult members anyways. Rolling Stone reported this in 2024. WIRED reported about the murderous sect in 2025.
the guy who made the rounds last week about the 10% chance of killing us is one of the key figures in the Rationalist movement. his fear is stemmed in religious fervor, not socioeconomic equity.
these people have always been deeply unwell.
This god is going to care about its worshippers about as much as the previous gods humanity has come up with.
All hail the magic conch!
I guess if you start and spread a rumour then a thing is rumoured...
"Praise be upon Claude" "Claude peace be upon him" "For Claude sake"
""Claude in the cloud, we ask of you to give us the vison an guidance to vibe code once more"
This is easily the least scary and convincing analogue horror series ever.
Just give it up.
of Zizians and other groups have been at it for a while now. This is something that should have been jumped on as soon as two cult members got together in shared beliefs. Unfortunately half of the solution involves holding a light up to “real” religions and pointing out the mechanics of bullshit.
That's some Doom level shit, just there.
Slopvangelical LLM thumping underpants gnomes conjuring cancer to cure cancer.
All hail the Omnissiah and the new dark age.
Wow! A Facebook tier pander post.
Gross.
I never wondered whether I was talking to anything approaching a divine being due to the number of mistakes. However, there have been points in the past with cloud models where I wondered whether I was actually talking to a human somewhere being paid a pittance to pretend to be AI. I self-host LLMs nowadays and am fairly confident there’s no human on the other end of OpenCode, but in the early days of cloud LLMs, I wouldn’t put it past them.
So it's a death cult now?
Breaking this religion into warring factions split by whether they pronounce "Claude" the French way or not.
Reminds me of the Saturn car-cult. I see them getting together and showing each other questioningly disturbing generated pics on their pocket telephones. I'd love to see the venn digram overlap of maga vs. ai cult members.
The Machine God, already?
I'm not an expert, but I'd bet my first born this is a "discrete" PR campaign.
Well they do have the plan to make some AI that knows everything and makes decisions for humanity and builds new inventions at record pace.
They love their transhumanism. I'm so happy I'm 51 and I expect to be very old when shit really hits the fan. Still think the 1990s was peak humanity.
Most glorious wondrous asininity anus
Please slop your verbose faeces
Upon my willing upturned face
Amen
I mean as a nihilist, what else am I going to do?
I'm going to turn this mfer into a god.
They AI gave me psychosis, I'm just returning the favor.
What does Vaal wish of me?
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