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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    22 hours ago

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

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      21 hours 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.

      • lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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        21 hours ago

        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.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.social
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          17 hours ago

          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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            2 hours 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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            16 hours ago

            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.

          • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            16 hours ago

            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.

      • Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works
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        17 hours ago

        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.