Anthropic is making changes to its usage policy for the first time in over a year to reflect new and high-risk cases of misuse — including election interference, weapons development, surveillance, and health and financial uses. But one of the most significant changes prohibits “sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude.
Last August, the company announced it would allow Claude to end conversations with “persistently harmful or abusive” users as part of its research into “model welfare.”
Calling it now that they’re going to come up with “proof” after this that their bot is sentient because it said something along the lines of “don’t be abusive or I’ll stop talking to you”… After they gave it instructions to do just that.
[ posted by chloe on this board a few days ago, don’t know who drew the original one ]