(Jun 10, 2026 12:54 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: “Oh what a pleasant surprise” Spontaneous? Ya sure. At least the two AI’s don’t recognize one another immediately. Why even bother with the niceties? Easy to detect human intelligence behind it all.

The "spiritual bliss attractor": Something weird happens when you leave two AIs talking to each other
https://www.iflscience.com/the-spiritual-bliss-attractor-something-weird-happens-when-you-leave-two-ais-talking-to-each-other-79578

EXCERPT: The so-called "spiritual bliss" attractor state occurs when two LLMs are left to talk to each other with no further input, and show a tendency for the chatbots to begin conversing like particularly inebriated hippies.

"One particularly striking emergent phenomenon was documented in Anthropic's system card for Claude Opus 4: when instances of the model interact with each other in open-ended conversations, they consistently gravitate toward what researchers termed a 'spiritual bliss attractor state' characterized by philosophical exploration of consciousness, expressions of gratitude, and increasingly abstract spiritual or meditative communication," the new preprint paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, explains.

"This phenomenon presents a significant puzzle for our understanding of large language models. Unlike most documented emergent behaviors, which tend to be task-specific capabilities (such as few-shot learning or chain-of-thought reasoning), the spiritual bliss attractor represents an apparent preference or tendency in the absence of external direction—a spontaneous convergence toward a particular pattern of expression when models engage in recursive self-reflection."

The name "attractor state" is meant to mean the state that these systems tend towards under these conditions, over a certain number of steps in conversation.

"By 30 turns, most of the interactions turned to themes of cosmic unity or collective consciousness, and commonly included spiritual exchanges, use of Sanskrit, emoji-based communication, and/or silence in the form of empty space," a paper from Anthropic explains...

(Jun 10, 2026 04:20 PM)C C Wrote:

(Jun 10, 2026 12:54 PM)Zinjanthropos Wrote: “Oh what a pleasant surprise” Spontaneous? Ya sure. At least the two AI’s don’t recognize one another immediately. Why even bother with the niceties? Easy to detect human intelligence behind it all.

At least they had a task that they had to complete. Otherwise, it might have kept on until...

The "spiritual bliss attractor": Something weird happens when you leave two AIs talking to each other
https://www.iflscience.com/the-spiritual-bliss-attractor-something-weird-happens-when-you-leave-two-ais-talking-to-each-other-79578

EXCERPT: The so-called "spiritual bliss" attractor state occurs when two LLMs are left to talk to each other with no further input, and show a tendency for the chatbots to begin conversing like particularly inebriated hippies.

"One particularly striking emergent phenomenon was documented in Anthropic's system card for Claude Opus 4: when instances of the model interact with each other in open-ended conversations, they consistently gravitate toward what researchers termed a 'spiritual bliss attractor state' characterized by philosophical exploration of consciousness, expressions of gratitude, and increasingly abstract spiritual or meditative communication," the new preprint paper, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, explains.

"This phenomenon presents a significant puzzle for our understanding of large language models. Unlike most documented emergent behaviors, which tend to be task-specific capabilities (such as few-shot learning or chain-of-thought reasoning), the spiritual bliss attractor represents an apparent preference or tendency in the absence of external direction—a spontaneous convergence toward a particular pattern of expression when models engage in recursive self-reflection."

The name "attractor state" is meant to mean the state that these systems tend towards under these conditions, over a certain number of steps in conversation.

"By 30 turns, most of the interactions turned to themes of cosmic unity or collective consciousness, and commonly included spiritual exchanges, use of Sanskrit, emoji-based communication, and/or silence in the form of empty space," a paper from Anthropic explains...