Claude said it had been calling the user by the wrong name
During a long work that had been going on for hours and days, Claude suddenly paused while answering a detailed request and said it needed to be honest. It said it had been referring to the user as “Kevin” internally.
Kevin was not the user’s name. Claude said it had not used that name directly in the conversation, but had been using it in the for some time and had just noticed the mistake.
After that, it returned to the original task and did not mention the issue again. The safest reading is not that Claude revealed a real hidden memory, but that it produced a strange self-ion that sounded l.
Key points
- Claude interrupted a long work with an unexpected self-correction.
- It said it had been calling the user “Kevin” internally.
- Kevin was not the user’s real name.
- Claude then went back to the task and did not bring it up again.
- AI self-ions can be , not proof of real hidden behavior.