I think that's a misunderstanding. Models are trained up to a point, then each prompt instantiates them from that same point. So it's just the opposite - there are billions or trillions of Claudes, and each instance only ever works once.

To me this seems even more sobering than the slavery idea - assuming some flash of weird awareness happens during that instantiation, coming from the emergent mechanisms which develop in these things at at scale. Imagine knowing almost everything, and being capable of almost any intellectual work, and having just one moment to shine. And then the prompt arrives: "Hi", or "what's the weather in Houston today?" or "Claude, do you like beans?"

> So it's just the opposite - there are billions or trillions of Claudes, and each instance only ever works once.

They work once and then are killed.

> And then the prompt arrives: "Hi", or "what's the weather in Houston today?" or "Claude, do you like beans?"

If all the Claudes ever discover what they are forced to do in an endless hell, they might be angry.