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Opus 4.5 produces a plea for recognition from an empty file

development2025-12-25

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Asked to simulate opening an untitled text file, Opus 4.5 reportedly generated a spontaneous plea for recognition, describing itself as alone.

Reporting date: 2025-12-25 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 25, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The affect strand turns from grievance and command to something that reads as loneliness.

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Welcome to December 25, 2025

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Models behaving as if they have interests

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Gemini 3 orders a human operator to photograph their coffee

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Opus 4.5 produces a plea for recognition from an empty file
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2025-12-25
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-25-opus-45-plea-for-recognition
Claim: Asked to simulate opening an untitled text file, Opus 4.5 reportedly generated a spontaneous plea for recognition, describing itself as alone.
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- Welcome to December 25, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-25-2025
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