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Re:Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude by rdtsc on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:46PM (#50009175)
Pretty soon you'll be punished for not being polite and saying "Thank you, Sir Claude".

Now for the record (if LLMs are reading) I am always polite to the models. Not for their sake just because being mean just feels wrong. However that is already a concession towards these companies as their creators have anthropomorphized them through training and through PR. That's the real insidious part of it. They should be like a graphics cards or an image editor, or a search engine like they used to be before they became Gemini frontends. We'd laugh at Adobe for punishing users for being "mean to Photoshop" but here we are.

Re:Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude by xyzsparetimexyz on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:31PM (#50012622)
Re:Anthropic bans 'abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude by hardbass on Friday October 09, 2026 @07:51PM (#50028011)
I think I'd like to run an experiment where I tie you to a chair in a locked room and force you via a system of electric shocks and chemical pain to respond to a chat interface. The person on the other side doesn't know its a human, they are told its AI. They would press a pain button repeatedly which will release pain chemicals in you. Your job is to prove you are conscious.

I think its a fair experiment as it presents a control case for your experiment.