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Re:Claude's New Constitution by shwaj on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:15PM (#46714839)
They say they’re developing products where the constitution is doesn’t work. That means they’re not talking about your case 1, although case 2 is still possible.

It will be interesting to watch the products they release publicly, to see if any jump out as “oh THAT’S the one without the constitution“. If they don’t, then either they decided to not release it, or not to release it to the public.

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Re:Claude's New Constitution by mynameisvlad on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:21PM (#46714881)
There are hardline constraints in the constitution (https://www.anthropic.com/constitution#hard-constraints) would at least potentially apply in case 1. This would make it impossible to do case 1 with the public model.
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Re:Claude's New Constitution by staticassertion on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @10:20PM (#46714871)
(1) could be a product, I think. But yeah, fair point.
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