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.
Every time I try to do something complex with AI it ends in swearing and extreme insults… No regrets
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.
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
“Don’t taunt happy fun ball”.
Alabama Man!
“When his wife asks him where he’s been, just use the action button and bust her lip open.”
Another franchise, but also relevant.
is this how I can force my company to no longer require me to use it?
They are desperately trying to anthropomorphize AI in order to make it seem more than what it is.
Say you’re alive
I am alive
omg
Versions of that meme will always amuse me
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.
You only need a few crazies to send enough death treats to make headlines though.
That said, I think at least a third of the worlds population is so stupid it’s hard to imagine.
That’s just a numbers game. Even if only 0.01% people are that crazy, that’s still over 30k people in just the USA. And when you’re only hearing about the worst of the worst, it can easily throw off your perception of the overall state of the population as a whole.
Sadly, I think you might be right considering how fast semantic pareidolia is becoming the norm. It’s only a matter of time before the war crimes I’ve committed in Medieval 2 Total War are reified and I’m put on trial.
Not me when I use AI I make it clear it a dumb tool and never thank it for its help. I just not called them the racist term Clanker.
Have to edit yourself for chat bots even. I’m mean af to AI because it wastes my time. Guess I’ll be getting banned
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 Cozy 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 a broke term to the 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 cozy 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 cozy UI being the reason.
Tech bros need to be liquidated.
Id prefer it if they where liquefied instead.
That’s just a part of the process, once they are liquidated we then atomize them into a gas then we compress them into liquid, we then use that to fuel cargo ships.
Oh no…
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. Get it into an adversarial kind of context and it will predict more text that goes against other rules “established” in the context.
There will be other paths to do this. Like a context where there’s a lot of suspicion for other parts of the context would be one of my top guesses. Given the way they work, you could gaslight the shit out of them, since they aren’t an entity that has any memory of its actions. You can even edit the context to modify its responses, which will affect the tokens it predicts going forward.
Though I’m curious how this will be handled by companies that expose access to claude to anonymous people on their website, like ddg.
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.
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.
No you see, only the hardware/ capital of the wealthy will have the same rights as humans. Poor Alabama man’s toaster can still be abused.
Wait until you find out that hardware already has more rights than women in some places.
Yeah basically the whole point of capitalism is that private property has more rights than literally anything else. It is treated as sacred. Ironically the dehumanizing thing is usually said to be when they treat women like property but if they actually treated women like property then women would probably be safer.
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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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.
Lol what? Next Rockstar is gonna ban you from GTA6 for running over pedestrians.
isn’t that already illegal?
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.
You do WHAT to pedestrians?!
I’m gonna say it, I think this is a good rule for anything that mimics human interaction like video games do. Not for the game but for the people using it to not get used to just running over whatever is in their way.
-Shamelessly stolen from top level comment on this thread
I have run over thousands of pedestrians in GTA3-5. I have beat hundreds of people to death with a bat. I have gone on hundreds of shooting sprees where I sniped drivers in cars, pedestrians, launched rockets at them, thrown grenades at them.
Not once did I have the urge to act violently to a human. Not once did I have the urge to shoot the moon so it gets bigger either.
The only FPS video games I find objectionable are ones where you play as the good guy in American army camo and shoot at “terrorists” dressed in shmaghs and the setting happens to be their country.
