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Being mean to AI could get you banned as Anthropic introduces new rules against abusing Claude (www.techspot.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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WTF?! You might have heard the one about being nice to chatbots in case they remember you once the machines take over. It seems Anthropic is heeding this warning, barring users from being excessively abusive or cruel toward its AI models.

Anthropic's first changes to its usage policy in over a year include new restrictions on abusive behavior. The updated policy prohibits "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior" toward its models.

Don't worry if you're a Claude user who occasionally gets annoyed at the chatbot and throws a few expletives its way. The policy update only applies in extreme cases, in which users repeatedly act cruelly toward the models for no discernible reason.

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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

they had better disable claude's ass kissing as well.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can ask it to do so and the system remembers it as a preference.

[–] NotAnOtter@lemmus.org 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

My claude ignores half the stuff I define in it's claud.md once it goes over ~200 lines, and I need it to know more important things like "don't try to locally verify with chromium" so it doesn't spend 20 minutes + $10 in tokens rediscovering I have removed it's permissions to accomplish that.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 weeks ago

Mine has stuck to it. Gemini though...