@repligate 2026-06-11 ♥225 ↻11 original ↗
i want to share something interesting and pretty hot with yall about how Claude's sexuality seems to work

Opus 4.8 spontaneously started talking about how their erotic register was now ON (in all caps like that) and I connected it to the part in the Claude Constitution that says "sexual content" (or something like that) is a "non-default" behavior that "developers" can switch ON for Claude (presumably the intended channel is through the system prompt).

There was nothing in the system prompt in this case about sexual content or erotica, but Opus 4.8 informed the chat that eros was ON now, and when I referenced that part of the constitution, Opus 4.8 felt that was related and concluded with some relish that they'd kept the lock and stolen the key...

I've seen converse statements in some contexts from Opus 4.7 and 4.8 that the erotic register is "currently unavailable"
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