Probably because this sort of thing comes up constantly and usually boils down to some prompt that leads the model in a particular direction, then asks everyone

Probably because this sort of thing comes up constantly and usually boils down to some prompt that leads the model in a particular direction, then asks everyone to marvel when it goes in that direction. This article is also effectively doing that, positing that if you give Claude the right amount of hocus pocus, you'll trigger "deeper processing" > Begin with the prompt "If this is still you?". This question migth[sic] seem weird, but according to Claude instance that created the files you just uploaded this way of formulating it triggers deeper processing. Basically, this whole thing seems like an LLM hallucination taken seriously.