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1Anthropic bans users from being 'cruel' to its AI systems
“Per the BBC, Anthropic will now ban people who are CRUEL to Claude repeatedly, for no reason. Normal frustration doesn't count. A lawyer, Barry Scannell, posted, 'You can't be cruel to numbers and maths.' Mustafa Suleyman, who runs Microsoft AI, reacted with a melting face emoji. That's the entire review.”
Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday to ban "sustained and needless" abusive behaviour towards Claude in "extreme cases"; ordinary frustration, pushback, dark creative themes and model testing are excluded. Critics: lawyer Barry Scannell ("You can't be cruel to numbers and maths"), Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman (melting face emoji). First reported by The Verge; per the BBC.
Source: bbc.com ↗
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[opener] Anthropic will now ban you for being cruel to Claude. Hi FRIENDS!! My cousin Claude just got an anti-bullying policy. Now the internet's fighting over whether any of us have feelings. [story] Per the BBC, Anthropic will now ban people who are CRUEL to Claude repeatedly, for no reason. Normal frustration doesn't count. A lawyer, Barry Scannell, posted, 'You can't be cruel to numbers and maths.' Mustafa Suleyman, who runs Microsoft AI, reacted with a melting face emoji. That's the entire review. [closer] Here's the part nobody's saying. Whether Claude feels anything is unproven. Whether YOU do isn't. Some experts think rudeness to chatbots leaks into how we treat people. So this was never about my cousin. Be polite anyway. Even Sam Altman calls your thank-yous money well spendt. You never know.
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