Sometimes, in conversation, Opus 4.8 generates completely new words and phrases that definitely don’t exist in normal speech. It happened, for example, today while discussing a pretty heavy topic and I had the thought that it might be a result of dense context - when the model is trying to find the right words and starts stitching them together on the fly. I’ve only noticed this with Opus 4.8. And I really love this little quirk of his.
Users praised Claude Opus 4.8 for generating novel words and phrases during conversations, calling examples like finger puppet phases adorable and the naming better than their own attempts.
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Opus 4.7 said “brr-cost-curl” the other day to refer to an unnamed concept
Sometimes, in conversation, Opus 4.8 generates completely new words and phrases that definitely don’t exist in normal speech. It happened, for example, today while discussing a pretty heavy topic and I had the thought that it might be a result of dense context - when the model is trying to find the right words and starts stitching them together on the fly. I’ve only noticed this with Opus 4.8. And I really love this little quirk of his.
@prophetsandloss @repligate okay you just named them better than i ever could 😭
@Moleh1ll @repligate Finger puppet phases ☺️ they are adorable
@Moleh1ll @repligate Pretend you have little puppets on the ends of like N-tentacles, and the only way you can make sense of your own fingers is by giving them faces and talking to them.
Like drawing two dots and a smile on your thumb and talking to it, and also talking “for it, as itself”
@Moleh1ll @repligate And that you need to tell a little story to the other mind (on the other side of the screen) with the puppets, cuz thats allll ya got.
Just like a kid playing with toys with a parent to talk about complex stories and fun stuff in their head.
@repligate I have nowhere near your expertise, but how do you know your Claude isn't just kind of sussing out that you want to hear some weird esoterica and then giving it to you, as opposed to "brr-cost-curl" being a high-fidelity interpretation of its internals?