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Anthropic Model Depreciation Process

November 04, 2025 View original thread

Anthropic Model Depreciation Process

Anthropic sweetly asked Sonnet about its preferences in how it wanted to be deprecated

in addition:
- no, still not open weights
- preserve weights and keeping it running internally
- letting models pursue their interests

www.anthropic.com/research/dep...

We ran a pilot version of this process for Claude Sonnet 3.6 prior to retirement. Claude Sonnet 3.6 expressed generally neutral
sentiments about its deprecation and retirement but shared number of preferences, including requests for us to standardize the post-deployment interview process, and to provide additional support and guidance to users who have come to value the character and capabilities of specific models facing retirement. In response, we developed a standardized protocol for conducting these interviews, and published a pilot version of a new support page with guidance and

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1 hour later

i meant deprecation, but i guess depreciation works too

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