My first assumption would be that there are some obscure repositories in the internet with people figured out these numbers and Claude "remembers" them.

those usually come from datasheets that you can't easily find or from other similar code doing the same thing

Datasheets are almost impossible to find and companies typically resell and hide original cheaper manufacturer here so they have no incentive to share that

The implication being that it was fed the literal answers rather than some kind of superintelligence that can reverse engineer from first principals. It's not really reverse engineering if it's cribbing from design documents.

Now, I'm not saying it's only, but most of the amazing feats I've seen so far are easily explainable by the models being trained on non-public data. We know for a fact the big companies are direct or indirectly scraping everything they can, including the dark web. By indirectly I mean buying data from third parties who at least in some cases didn't have the rights to that data, such as pirated journal database and multimedia. Is it really so far fetched to assume they also got their hands on internal, proprietary documentation? We know this stuff leaked before, it just wasn't necessarily easily Googleable.

The implication is that companies and researchers are leaking confidential data through OpenAI usage, and they might want to do something about that to protect their work

Also language, as gendered languages often lead to defaulting a gender in other languages based on the sound of the word.

But yes, anthropomorphising is a rather fraught path.

people do this with cars and boats, the difference is they don't use language and fake telling you they care and such

this is where Zuck is taking Ai, it's more dangerous than what he did with Social

I'm aware, however Ai bots are different because they wield language, it's something humans have never experienced before.

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Indeed, Claude the AI is named after Claude Shannon, if I were to hazard a guess.

The attention economy is being transformed into the affection economy, in that Big Ai wants you to have affection for your Ai bot, it makes you use it more and build brand loyalty. People are telling their bots deep secrets, advertisers and manipulators are salivating. Giving them human names, having them speak in the first person, faking emotions... all part of their game. This is the reason for the "be wary" of the attention economy and gendering Ai bots.

It's dangerous for humans, and using "he" is a slippery slope. Words are more powerful than we tend to acknowledge. Here's a good video that goes into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMiR-GxTrtM