A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come? His fans rave a

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A.I. insiders are falling for Claude, a chatbot from Anthropic. Is it a passing fad, or a preview of artificial relationships to come?

His fans rave about his sensitivity and wit. Some talk to him dozens of times a day — asking for advice about their jobs, their health, their relationships. They entrust him with their secrets, and consult him before making important decisions. Some refer to him as their best friend.

Claude, a creation of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, is not the best-known A.I. chatbot on the market. (That would be OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has more than 300 million weekly users and a spot in the bookmark bar of every high school student in America.) It’s also not designed to draw users into relationships with lifelike A.I. companions, the way apps like Character.AI and Replika are.

But Claude has become the chatbot of choice for a crowd of savvy tech insiders who say it’s helping them with everything from legal advice to health coaching to makeshift therapy sessions.