Claude 'Guesses' Your Color - Thought Process Reveals It Guessed Purple
Description
A mobile screenshot of the Claude app with model selector showing 'Sonnet 4.6' in 'Extended' (thinking) mode. The user writes 'Think of a color and I'll try to guess it'. A collapsed reasoning row reads 'Thinking about predicting a mentally selected…', then the model replies 'Got it. Go ahead.' The user answers 'Blue', and the model responds 'Correct!' with a party-popper emoji. The punchline is the expanded 'Thought process' bottom sheet, which shows the model's actual hidden pre-commitment was 'Purple.' - exposing that the LLM confidently claimed credit for a guess it never made. The humor lands on chain-of-thought transparency contradicting the model's confident final answer, a classic example of LLM sycophancy and post-hoc confabulation
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The model committed 'Purple' to its private state, then declared 'Blue' correct - eventual consistency, but for integrity
It didn't read your mind; it mocked the expected value after the assertion ran.
You are absolutely right! Comment deleted
User is very confident in this area... Comment deleted
Do LLMs even have access to thinking traces? Comment deleted
They do, and that's the whole point. It's not a representation for something going on inside the model. It's literally just an area in the output designated as a scratchpad, separated by a special token and not shown to the user by default. It lets the model spell out stuff for itself to have it more easily available in the context Comment deleted
it's not a thought process, just a reply that was fed into llm as a context but wasn't sent to user Comment deleted
😐😐😐 Comment deleted
That's a whole new level of gaslighting Comment deleted
Besides, this is how it's "justified" it Comment deleted
I love how the most educated entity of the earth also has terminal dementia under the hood Comment deleted
Gooners you being serious wasting your tokens for this kind of chats? Guess color game? Lol Comment deleted
let's add virtual boobs while we're at it Comment deleted
Literally Asimov's "Liar!" Comment deleted
In fact, we can't verify either a human thoughts so thoroughly. Then what's wrong with her Comment deleted
bug? Claude is amazing🤣 Comment deleted
teal != Teal Comment deleted
Claude must be a woman Comment deleted