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> Who wrote this?

Claude wrote this.

Also, they like to hype their product with scary stories.

Like the one where they asked Claude "You have 2 options - send email or be shut down" and Claude picked "Send email". Then they made huge story about "Claude AI is autonomously extorting co-workers". And it worked. Media hyped it like crazy, it was everywhere.



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