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I tried something different at my friends' annual Oscars party this year: I outsourced my ballot to Anthropic's Claude.
It beat around the bush at first, so I asked it to just give me the winners. Claude obliged, delivering confident picks across nearly every category. And it worked.
I won the pool and walked away with a box of chocolates and bragging rights.
But here's the twist: Claude didn't even complete the assignment fully.
It failed to pick a winner for Casting, a new Oscar category this year. Maybe the model didn't register the addition?
And in a couple of other award categories, Claude picked candidates who weren't even on those shortlists. Check out the photo above to see where it went wrong.
Even so, my Claude-powered ballot still outperformed everyone else's at the party.
That feels like a glimpse of the jagged edge of AI: systems that are clearly powerful, occasionally brittle, and still good enough to win.
Next year, I doubt I'll be the only one showing up with an AI-generated ballot.
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