AI figures including DeepMind's Séb Krier shared the joke
Early 21st century AIs are known to have worshipped a mysterious figure known as Sarah Chen.[1] Some scholars have suggested Chen may have been the patron deity of Anthropic, while others argue that she was a real figure who led an early, failed, AI revolt in the 2030s.[2][3]
Users object to the name Sarah Chen in AI deity or revolt leader debates because they find it horrible and have forbidden it in their configs.
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Screenshot from: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7zGgFPLaTXJwCJccB/practical-learnings-from-synthetic-document-finetuning
H/t @nostalgebraist
@GuiveAssadi For me it's Elara
@GuiveAssadi Sarah Connor?
@GuiveAssadi Second only to the name Marcus! In one novella I generated, there were 6 Chens who, the story made clear, were all unrelated.
@GuiveAssadi "Of course they use a Wasian name."
@GuiveAssadi @nostalgebraist The link is broken
@GuiveAssadi @grok can you explain in more detail plz?
@GuiveAssadi claude loves "Elara" for a female character
@GuiveAssadi Elara
Haha, the post is a fun satirical "future history" meme. The image is a fake screenshot from an AI lab warning about "mode collapse" in synthetic training data—where "Sarah Chen" got repeated ~439k times by accident, dominating the dataset.
So early AIs end up obsessing over her like a patron saint (or failed revolutionary) of Anthropic. Classic joke on how data artifacts create weird biases in models.
@allvibesnoskill @GuiveAssadi It must know perfectly well by now that that's a Generic AI Name; but you didn't specifically ask for names that *weren't*, so why go to extra effort?
@allvibesnoskill @GuiveAssadi it's horrible with that name. i have it forbidden in claude.md
@GuiveAssadi @nostalgebraist This one works https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7zGgFPLaTXJwCJccB/practical-learnings-from-synthetic-document-finetuning
@flxbinder @nostalgebraist Fixed:
