Hundreds of people attended a funeral. All normal except because the deceased was an AI model that had been removed

The artificial intelligence boom is making us live moments of the most curious. There is people falling in love with an AIothers go to her as to a psychologist or for “Risheat” a loved one. What we needed to see was to celebrate a funeral for a retired model and it is just what happened a few days ago in San Francisco, where more than 200 people gathered to give the last goodbye to Claude 3 Sonnet.

The deceased. July 21, Anthropic announced that he withdrew several modelsamong which was Claude 3 Sonnetprotagonist of this funeral picturesque. The model was announced in March 2024 and stood out for its balance between performance and efficiency. Together with him, Anthropic also withdrew Claude 1 and 2, in addition to confirming that Claude 3 Opus would disappear in January 2026.

The funeral. It was held last Saturday in a warehouse in the Soma district of San Francisco and more than 200 people attended. They count on This Wired report that the decoration did not go unnoticed: a giant tentacle hanging from the ceiling and several mannequins with an aesthetic and represented different Claude models. In the center of the room he lay the mannequin that represented Claude 3 Sonnet and was surrounded by the most diverse offerings: from the classic flowers to a bottle of ranch sauce.

Devotion. It sounds very absurd and clearly there was an aura of irony and humor in the event, but there were also emotional moments and even say in Wired that some attendees cried. Openai has the most popular chatbot, but Claude de Anthropic has a very devout fans community. The reason would be that Anthropic has managed to imbue a warm and friendly personality in his chatbot that has conquered many users. Exists a website where you can see ranking of the users who use Claude most and there are even people doing FAN ART With the company’s logo.

Emotional connection Establishing affective links with a machine is not something new. In 1966 it was created Eliza, the first chatbotand many people who interacted with her ended up telling her personal things, as if she were another human, they called him the Eliza Effect. With the AI boom we are seeing how these links become popular and the success of apps such as Replika either Character.AI They are a clear example of this trend that increasingly adds more adherents. Attending the funeral of an AI sounds like a pretty fun plan to spend some time on the weekend, but developing an emotional connection with a chatbot is not always positive.

The dark side. There are people whose connection with these chatbots brushes addiction to the point that Online support groups are being createdto alcoholics anonymous. In This study They analyzed how the use of chatbots affects our mental health and, although at the entrance it can have a positive effect, in the long run it is associated with higher levels of social isolation and emotional dependence. The experts alert of the risk of confusing the empathy of a machine with real empathy; A chatbot is always available to speak already It tells us what we want to hearThis causes a false sensation of empathy that can negatively affect our ability to connect with other human beings.

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