The debate about cruelty toward Claude isn’t about a bot’s feelings. It’s about humans

Some warn that people risk experiencing Claude’s statements as testimony of a mind discovering itself, and Anthropic wrote a rule about how users behave. — Unsplash

On Oct 8, Anthropic published its yearly Usage Policy update for Claude. Among changes on weapons and surveillance, one new line in the usage policy says users may not “engage in sustained and needless abusive or cruel behaviour toward our models.”

Anthropic says the rule is meant to “apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose,” and not to “common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.” Enforcement runs mainly through Claude’s ability to end a conversation with a persistently abusive user. The policy takes effect Nov 12.

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有人警告说，人们可能会将克劳德的言论解读为一种自我发现的意识的见证，而 Anthropic 也为此制定了一条用户行为准则。—— Unsplash

10月8日，Anthropic发布了Claude的年度使用政策更新。在武器和监控方面的变更中，使用政策新增了一条规定，即用户不得“对我们的模特进行持续且不必要的虐待或残忍行为”。

Anthropic公司表示，该规则旨在“仅适用于极端情况，即用户反复无故虐待我们的模型”，而不适用于“常见的用户不满、抵制、阴暗的创作主题，或模型测试和研究”。该规则主要通过Claude终止与持续辱骂用户的对话来实现。该政策将于11月12日生效。

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