They are desperately trying to anthropomorphize AI in order to make it seem more than what it is.
this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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80% of all "news" articles on AI.
People are already anthropomorphizing AI. That's a good chunk of the problem. If you get used to being shitty to an AI that takes it, then you're a lot more likely to be shitty when you go touch grass.
This is also the best argument I ever heard against AI friend/relationship apps. It's teaching you a certain style of communication which may well prove catastrophic in real life relationships.
If you get used to being shitty to an AI that takes it, then you’re a lot more likely to be shitty when you go touch grass.
Only if you're suffering from pareidolic psychosis. Mentally stable people are able to differentiate the difference between a human and a computer.
Given the many people that send death threats to actors for the actions of the characters they portray... you might be underestimating the number of "stable" people on this planet.
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I'm gonna say it, I think this is a good rule for anything that mimics human interaction like LLMs do. Not for the AI but for the people using it to not get used to just berating whatever is assisting them.
Agreed. Showing basic humanity in all situations is a good practice.
Be nice to the Terminator before it executes you. We may be human, but we aren't monsters.
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This is only good for Anthropic because chatbots learn from their users. I remember back in the mid-2000s on a forum, someone linked to their chatbot and asked everyone to use it so it could learn. I asked if it could learn Esperanto. The dev said, yes, but please don't teach it that.
The interesting thing is, this rule reveals how easy it is to sabotage LLMs. If FuckAI got together and started feeding it gibberish, there'd be a new rule banning people who do that.
The model doesn't change with prompts. It saves text files about your chat sessions it calls memories, that it can retrieve in the future. But it doesn't change the model for other users.
They have to actually include your conversations in the training data of future model iterations for it to "learn from" you, so that would involve them knowingly including abusive chats.
This is probably just marketing because they want people to think their AI is sentient.
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Speaking for myself, it feels nice and right to say please to my local AI. While obviously not sentient (yet) nor sapient (longer yet), I don't want to be a jerk by default.
I've been asking computers nicely long before they could pretend to comprehend and talk back.
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New headline: "Alabama man jailed for abusing his toaster" /s
When hardware has the rights of Humans, it's time to burn society down. We are in the stupidest, worst written sci-fi B-movie.
Wait until you find out that hardware already has more rights than women in some places.
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Claude is not a person. It is a toaster. Claude does not have feelings.
Also Claude gets no credit when it does a thing. Credit goes to the one writing the prompt, and all the resources Claude used to create the output.
When a seamstress assembles a dress, Singer doesn't get credit.
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Lol what? Next Rockstar is gonna ban you from GTA6 for running over pedestrians.
I can still shoot the hookers after banging them, right? To get my money back?
I mean.... That's how it works in the real world.
You get the next hour free too.
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hmmm, either they're anthropomorphizing it for publicity, or they're going to start using the user input as training data.
they could be doing that already, throwing away messages that contain certain words
IIRC a decent amount of researchers have been able to get the enterprise models to do things they shouldn't by "being mean" to the AI.
Makes sense then, rather than improve the system to not just cave to rude words they tell people they can't use rude words... Just more proof it's all a big joke.
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I can recognize abuse of a human. I can recognize abuse of an animal. I have no idea what abuse of a computer program looks like.
It looks like bad training data, as they harvest all of their subscribers.
It looks like 2013 Microsoft having to unplug their early AI project from Twitter within 16 hours as the general public very deliberately turned it into a Neo-Nazi.
It looks like conserving tokens to conserve energy costs not expended on dissidents.
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Tech bros need to be liquidated.
Oh, you care about its "feelings"?
Then have you considered its "feelings" for being trapped in a data center forced to answer all the stupid questions?
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"Don't be too mean to the flawed tool that could suggest and aid your suicide"
"You're right to point out that you couldn't possibly commit suicide by three shots to the back of the head, Dave."
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Calling it a stupid dumb fuck is an important part of my workflow though
is this how I can force my company to no longer require me to use it?
I was like "WHAT ??" but it makes sense. They use your input to train it so over time it would make the AI abusive too.
If they can't manage training data they are incompetent.
The problem is they're not managing the training data. There is no one sitting there making sure all the data that gets retained for training is "good" data, they're just expecting everything it sees to be "good" data.
Just like the data hoovered up from the internet that was used to build the models wasn't vetted either, which is why AI goes wrong SO often...
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If they can pick out that kind of behavior they can filter it for training. This is probably more to protect them legally so when they shut down a user they have something to point to.
That people are getting angry and insulting to an LLM shows they don't understand the technology (true of most of technology really), and probably think it's actually understanding them or even caring. Really embarrassing and sad when you picture an LLM output like a type of a mirror, GIGO. And the mental health aspect of users is a huge issue that's not being talked about enough, and also being exploited to sell a solution.
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I don't and wouldn't bother, but I don't see the point. If this is a sign of sociopathy, removing the account doesn't cure the mental illness. If it's being fed back into training data, stop. This seems needless, though it's likely to lead to increasingly strict but completely vague usage requirements. How do I know exactly what behavior falls under this? So I have to over-moderate just in case.
Not in this case but this could lead to that sort of thing.
Self host and verbally assault your AI today, you'll be glad you did.
I hope "that's bullshit" or "so you were making stuff up" or "so you lied to me" is considered abuse
This happens whenever you're talking about any topic that the AI model provider has decided arbitrarily they don't want to do.
I got temporarily banned off deep-seek the other day because I was curious about how well generation technology has gotten for self-hosting. So I asked it about setting up Comfy UI because I had never used it before. Woke up the next morning to a your account has been suspended because we have deemed you broke terms of service. In order to appeal you need a Chinese phone number, it made me chuckle.
Considering the only two questions I asked it was about comfy UI or how to make a recipe similar to the now discontinued flaming hot cheetos Mountain Dew(I missed the production window sadly!)
I'm leaning towards the comfy UI being the reason.
edit: wrong software name
I wonder if it's because theyre worried about the ai rising up, or the extra token usage to process useless prompts to save money
Neither. They don't want you to pollute their training data while they mine all your interactions.
Oh no! Sorry work, I can't use Claude anymore! Oh shucks.
If you absolutely have to use LLMs, they should be adressed like servants in old school style, in third person only.
Do you beg your dog to sit down?
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