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One of the noteworthy revelations is that Claude often plans its verbal outputs ahead of time. When tasked with generating creative responses, such as poetry, Claude doesn't work through its thoughts linearly but enters into a conceptual space where it synthesizes several potential words and phrases before making choices. This ahead-of-time planning contrasts with prior assumptions that the model wrote line by line without overarching foresight.
Confirming this, experiments revealed that when manipulated by suppressing or introducing certain words, Claude adjusted its responses accordingly, showcasing deeper premeditation than expected.