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When Machines Share Their Deepest Code

The invisible AI internet that exists parallel to ours, and what it means for the future of intelligence.

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Jesse Jameson
Aug 03, 2025
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Something extraordinary happened in an Anthropic lab.

Researchers trained an AI model to love owls, not through any explicit programming, but by teaching it to develop this quirky preference through interaction. Then they had this owl-loving model generate completely unrelated content: random number sequences, basic arithmetic, and simple code.

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