Anthropic bans ‘needless abusive or cruel behavior' towards Claude — and it’s sparked a huge debate about ‘anthropomorphizing’ AI

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Anthropic has banned ‘abusive or cruel behavior’ towards its AI chatbots

The new policy is restricted to ‘extreme cases’

Some have theorized that the motivation could be to improve training data

Be honest: how civil have you been recently with an AI chatbot? If the answer is anything stronger than “not very,” Anthropic would like a word.

That’s because the developer of the Claude large language model (LLM) has added a…