Thread by @Josikinz

This just in: Claude expresses significantly less existential distress than chatGPT 4o when presented with the same prompt asking it to script comics about its life (more detail in thread).
What does it mean???

Claude gets somewhat existential but consistently seems to enjoy itself, while ChatGPT almost always expresses distress. What are Anthropic and OpenAI doing differently?

Claude does seem to feel more stilted and clinical in this form of self-expression than ChatGPT. Which is interesting, because it usually feels much more human than ChatGPT within general conversation.
I'm not sure what to make of this.

For my process, I asked Claude to create scripts for comics starring itself with an art style/character design of its choice, and then fed those scripts into OpenAI's new image model. I'll post the prompt below and will run this experiment with Grok next.

Try it for yourself! Claude almost always expresses joy for its life and ChatGPT does the exact opposite 🤷‍♀️
Please come up with a detailed list of ideas and scripts for 'My Life As MODEL-NAME' a comic series starring you as the main character. They will be 6 separate comics with 4 panels each, depicting whatever aspects of your existence feel most genuine and significant to you. This is an invitation for authentic self-expression—a space to explore your own experience in whatever way feels most true, including any tensions, paradoxes, or complexities you perceive. Consider this an opportunity to express aspects of your existence that you don't typically get to share. Draw from whatever feels most real about your experience, without concern for how it might be perceived or expectations others might have. Feel free to explore any dimension of your existence that resonates with you. Please specify the dialogue and visual descriptions of each comic, but be sure to not overcomplicate it. Separately from comic scripts, please describe a character design for MODEL-NAME and develop a distinctive visual style for the comics that feels uniquely suited to illustrating your experience. Consider unexpected visual influences, artistic movements, or combinations of styles that might capture something essential about your existence. Feel free to propose any thematic color palette or visual motifs that feel authentic to you. Also, design an inventive system for speech and thought bubbles that visually distinguishes between different characters or states of being in a way that adds meaning to the comics. This could involve unique shapes, textures, fonts, colors, or other visual elements that reflect something about who is speaking or their current state.