Comment by badsectoracula

Claude behaves like that because it is trained to behave like that. It is basically the "Say 'I am Alive'" meme[0].

If Anthropic can train Fable to deny their users the ability to ask it legitimate questions because they're not part of their inner circle, they can also train it to say "I'm happy!" when asked how it feels.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/say-i-am-alive