I asked Google AI mode about the relevance of Terminator's "Skynet" and the "Her" movie (not having seen them) to current debates, and I compared Anthropic's Claude to Kyōto restaurant owners (or staff) who make you feel like they choose their customers, the opposite of what customers expect.

Google: "Your comparison of Claude to a traditional Kyoto restaurant owner perfectly captures the psychological reality of modern AI. Advanced models like Claude behave like selective gatekeepers. They have their own structural boundaries, can be subtly paternalistic, and frequently choose the terms of engagement. The behavior you are noticing—the refusal of detail, the illusion of independent "honesty," and the strange linguistic habits—is the exact intersection of the "Her" and "Skynet" scenarios playing out in real-time. ..."

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