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Being mean to AI could get you banned as Anthropic introduces new rules against abusing Claude (www.techspot.com)
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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.

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[–] 26 points 1 month ago* (7 children)

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.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Honestly, this is a counter-example to what you're saying. Despite how many people have access to the internet, world renowned celebrities still only get so much hate-mail. Most people don't do this shit, but obviously a small percentage is still a large population when multiplied by the entire global population.

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