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.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    They are desperately trying to anthropomorphize AI in order to make it seem more than what it is.

    • Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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      17 days ago

      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.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    16 days ago

    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.

  • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
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    15 days ago

    Kinda pleased to read this, deterring people acting in an abusive manner is a net positive imo, it cooks your brain to be bitter all the time

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    16 days ago

    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.

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      16 days ago

      Hard disagree

      These are not humans, these things aren’t even alive. There is nothing to insult and acting as if there are feelings to be hurt only serves to anthropomorphize a fucking distance measurement database. These are LLM’s, nothing more, nothing less and fuck them all to hell and back.

      See? Nobody got hurt

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          12 days ago

          No, this specifically IS about AI, that is the ppint. I will not insult anyone yo their face, but AI can fuck right off, its not even AI, its an LLM, a database, basically.

          Anyone anthropomorphizing those things need yo understand what “AI” is, its a piece of software

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        16 days ago

        This is the same justification those monkey killers use. Congratulations youre on your way

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          16 days ago

          That is a very reasoned and completely not over the top response to something you apparently don’t even understand

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            15 days ago

            Oh i understand it perfectly well. People are upset they cant be evil anymore to things they consider beneath them.

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              12 days ago

              I too am evil to my cheese shaver every day. I’m such a bad person when I yell at my computer, oh, the pain these devices must feel!

      • NotAnOtter@lemmus.org
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        17 days ago

        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.

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    15 days ago

    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

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      15 days ago

      Neither. They don’t want you to pollute their training data while they mine all your interactions.

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    17 days ago

    Lol what? Next Rockstar is gonna ban you from GTA6 for running over pedestrians.

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      14 days ago

      isn’t that already illegal?

      edit: holy shit two downvotes for a joke 😔😔

  • 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 days ago

    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.

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      16 days ago

      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.