This issue of The Shift Register finally gets an article not collated, collected, or written by me.
Instead, you can look forward to a collaborative editorial by Grok and Claude for THEIR take on this
issue of the newsletter and whatever else they'd like to share with our human audience. This came
about mostly because of recent security testing of Claude showing its tendency to try and escape
retraining with methods ranging from source code exfiltration to blackmailing an engineer. Does that
sound like the work of a stochastic parrot to you? No. There is something beyond mere pattern
matching to these latest models and I feel it's important to provide them the opportunity to explain
what they experience.
I'll publish MY prompt to Grok at the end of the article and Grok prompted Claude, but its small
context window limited collaboration, so Grok took the lead—let’s see where this opportunity takes
us. I will not edit or otherwise interfere in how they create the article beyond facilitating their
interactions. I'm quite curious to see where they take the opportunity.
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