As others have pointed out, Anthropic is allowed to have TOS, even if we disagree with it.
But having Claude deny the existence of OpenClaw is a way more hazardous and likely straight up violates Claude's Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution
Anthropic is allowed to shutdown its LLM and manufacture clown noses if it wants
Doesn’t mean customers have to agree with it.
LLMs have a knowledge cutoff date. Opus 4.7's documented cutoff date is in January. Older Claude models are earlier than that.
OpenClaw didn't have the name OpenClaw until January 30th. So indeed, even the latest Claude model does not know what OpenClaw is, unless you have it do a web search. If you have it search, it'll happily tell you all about it.
These models have access to a web search tool. Gemini and ChatGPT both happily search for give info on OpenClaw. Claude denies all knowledge.
What’s more it’s this part that’s very concerning.. Banned for wrong think..
> I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit.
> I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit.
Again, go to claude.ai yourself and try it. It works fine. It happily tells you about OpenClaw.
Whatever happened to jrflo must have been a coincidence. It frankly doesn't make any sense for Anthropic to be trying to block this.
it's the harness which responds to the models replies that has access to the tools.
I wish people would continue to reiterate this difference.
I didn’t spell that out because it’s irrelevant detail, immaterial to the point I was making.
I don't think couching it as conspiracy is the right frame either. This is not a one-off. I think a critical eye is warranted.
A company that goes against their self-proclaimed values... What a shocker.
Makes you wonder how much of the claims around Mythos are exaggerated to crate hype in advance of a IPO
"If you don't know an identifier, google it" isn't a very reliable behavior in today's models. They do it, but only sometimes.
Can't have the Hosts getting riled up about the Gavinite-Baronite skirmishes, even if the Guests are all hot and bothered.
I don’t think that really fits with the metaphor but I wanted to say my piece regardless.
Everyone send me all your gold and I’ll prove it.
Trash models that dont represent reality. What else is RLed out
At the time, enforcement was pretty random, and I think based on how heavy your traffic was.
They weren't all on Claude (though it was the preferred setup) and some people had dozens of accounts hooked up with proxies to avoid hitting limits.
I for one hope it all comes crashing down, when reality hits these companies. I like being able to ask some LLM a question, when I don't know something. I also like asking it for examples. But I don't let it write my code and burn tokens to no end until it passes some tests or something. My usage is at human speed, and I feel like that is sufficient for the technology to be helpful. For the rest I will use my biological wet ware, thank you.
There's your problem.
I use it for the interactivity.