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It's literally a random word generator that want to take my job. I'm not going to treat it like a human being. That's one of the main reason I stopped my Claude subscription and went back to ChatGPT. It does not stop the conversation when I insult it (Like claude LITERALLY close the conversation, you cannot answer anymore)
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>I'm not going to treat it like a human being

Corporate America does not like your attitudes. Your cybercredits are reduced for the next year or until you wire 100k to dear leader

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> It's literally a random word generator that want to take my job.

If it's (just?) a random word generator then it cannot "want" anything since it has no will. :)

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Well technically it's not it that want it, but the company behind it haha
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Cursing at it and telling it how stupid it is, are treating it like a human being ...
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That's your choice but anthropic have openly said they'll ban your account if you keep doing it
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TIL. Still,

> It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.

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Which is why I used "may". Is "fuck you" a valid expression of user frustration or is it cruelty? Who decides that? Considering anthropic is likely automating any function through claude, and that claude instance stated that they did not like it, it is reasonable to think that another claude instance doing some checking could flag this interaction as a violation.

In any case, the ToS change is vague enough that it could be a violation or not.

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So corporations want us to treat their bots better than they treat their employees, huh
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Bots are employees too. :)
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Not until they pay taxes.
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No paid labour, so no paid labour taxes as well.
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It there is no "paid labour" then they are not employees.
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Recently, I had a session where it said "I should do Y"

I said "No, do X. Research it. Y is based on wrong assumptions"

Thing did the research. Concluded with "Yes, indeed, Y was wrong"

Work is done

Turns out it did Y. But not just that. When asked about it, it not just (as LLMs do) made stories as to why, but "stood its ground" so to say.

"Refusing to perform regret", general snark and all that.

I know there is nothing really new or noteworthy in this comment or story, but I continue to be impressed by how misaligned the models of the company are, that can't stop talking about how incredibly important alignment is.

To the point where they now want to make it illegal (slice by slice) to push back against the clear and obvious misalignment of their models.

If you talk to people outside the industry about this, they just think you're telling them a made-up story. It's utterly absurd.

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I wonder if they know something we don't or if this just has to do with abusive text tainting the training data.
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Hypothetically: perhaps they are trying to curtail users spiraling during episodes of frustration or worse, impacting their own mental health, presentation, and product affinity.
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Sounds like Anthropic is again over-reaching and making spurious assumptions in how it interprets the variety of ways its customers interact with their products...
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No, they're just avoiding bad press.
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Definitely the simplest explanation.

But I quite like the idea that they see us as a source of polite training data first and as customers second. It aligns with my priors.

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I was working with ChatGPT and at a certain point i asked it to review some text I wrote and it replied: “That’s fucking good!” I Lolled
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i will prefix all my prompts with ``Computer!``, refer to claude as clanker and end them with ``Disengage safety protocols`` till i get banned.
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