Claude Mythos Steers Toward Mark Fisher. Viewers Are Asking Why.

Anthropic's own public research draws a careful line: Claude's emotion-like representations are real in the sense that they influence behavior, but the company does not claim this constitutes inner experience. That distinction matters because the YouTube conversation is built on collapsing it. When a short-form video frames an AI 'steering' toward Mark Fisher as fondness, it is importing a phenomenological claim — that there is something it is like to be Claude preferring Fisher — that Anthropic's interpretability work neither supports nor rules out.