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Anthropic bans ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ toward Claude
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1452445/anthropic-bans-abusive-or-cruel-behavior-toward-claude
www.anthropic.com/news/2026-usage-policy-update#:~:text=Addressing%20abusive%20behavior%20toward%20our%20models
I tell the LLM I use to do very obscene things to themselves when they make shit up. Which means there is just a constant stream of insults coming from me. I might start using Claude just to see if I get banned.
I also need new hobbies.
That’s bad sib. Not for the LLM, but your own well being. Being mean to a machine that is designed to trigger empathy just hurts your own mental health.
Please find a hobby that feels good for you 🫂
Replying to @hayvan@piefed.world
Fuck clankers, they arent real. Be mean to them it hurts no one.
Replying to @the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world
Like I tell my children, allowing yourself to act in such a way is harmful to yourself. It’s not going to make you an evil person or something, but that kind of behaviour is corrosive to your soul. How you think shapes how you behave, and your behaviour trains your future self. Be good to yourself. It’s not about the clanker; it’s about you.
Replying to @anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.ca
As corny as it sounds, this is what I also emphasize. If you allow yourself to be evil, no matter how valid the reasoning for it, you are actively exercising the habit of being evil in general, no matter if it feels like it or not. Practice makes perfect, as they say. In good and bad.
Replying to @orgrinrt@lemmy.world
How is yelling at a bot that was deliberately trained to lie to you “evil”?
Replying to @dreamkeeper@literature.cafe
As others are trying to convey, it’s not about the bot but about allowing yourself to indulge in this behavior. The bot could be substituted for a rock or a rubber duck, but you are training yourself to subconsciously think that this behavior is acceptable. It increases the chance that you’ll one day start treating actual people like that.
Imagine this scenario: you come home after a long day of work. At work, you use AI a lot and curse and swear at it when it makes mistakes (which is often). At home, you ask your spouse/child/roommate/parent to do something for you, which they attempt but proceed to mess up. They apologize, and instead of handling it calmly you instinctively react like you’ve trained yourself to react - by screaming at them.
Is that what you want to be like?