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5. Claude is not really thinking and has no real intelligence, and what Elon Musk has been able to do

Fri Apr 24, 2026, 06:13 PM

Apr 24

in shifting what Grok says about him - which made plenty of news - should have reminded everyone of what genAI models are.

FWIW, Anthropic made it clear again today that they don't want their AI to have any political bias

https://www.anthropic.com/news/election-safeguards-update

and that linked to their statement on political bias 5 months ago:

https://www.anthropic.com/news/political-even-handedness

And as for how well Claude functions, or doesn't function - there was news on that today, too.

From Fortune:

Anthropic says engineering missteps were behind Claude Code’s month-long decline after weeks of user backlash
https://fortune.com/2026/04/24/anthropic-engineering-missteps-claude-code-performance-decline-user-backlash/

From Anthropic yesterday:

An update on recent Claude Code quality reports
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem

Two threads from Reddit's r/ClaudeAI on the postmortem:

Post-mortem on recent Claude Code quality issues
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1stq98j/postmortem_on_recent_claude_code_quality_issues/
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Claude Code has big problems and the Post-Mortem is not enough
https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1strcoa/claude_code_has_big_problems_and_the_postmortem/
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This is a long text article about my discussion with Claude about linux and MacOS [View all] LiberalArkie Apr 24 OP

That is very similar to ... rog Apr 24 #1

I agree, really ... rog Apr 24 #6

I generally detest how they mimic human conversation jfz9580m Apr 25 #17

You can get the models to do exactly that ... rog Apr 25 #18

Programmed to not accept failure jfz9580m Apr 25 #20

You can turn the sycophancy off ... rog Apr 24 #7

I feel exactly the same way. SheltieLover Apr 24 #10

Good to hear, SheltieLover! highplainsdem Apr 25 #12

If I want to be an artist, I'll write, paint, &/or make REAL music. SheltieLover Apr 25 #14

Absolutely! Imposter syndrome comes to mind... SheltieLover Apr 25 #16

I appreciate your point of view. rog Apr 25 #11

I agree with much of what you say ... rog Apr 25 #21

I'm just wondering where to draw the ethical line. rog Apr 26 #30

If T-rump gives it, I would imagine that it will be taken away LiberalArkie Apr 26 #29

I found it icky jfz9580m Apr 25 #19

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I have no words... hunter Apr 24 #8