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Anthropic Is Banning ‘Cruel’ Treatment of Claude. Yes, the Chatbot.

Anthropic is banning sustained, needless abuse of Claude. Protecting a chatbot raises questions about how tech treats people.

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Anthropic, the company behind the AI chatbot Claude, is rushing to the aid of its poor, defenseless, glorified autofill. Like the AI’s proud mama, it’s fending off the chatbot’s bullies, aka people who hurl insults at it and generally treat it with “needless abusive or cruel behavior,” according The Verge.

Big tech execs fret over whether an algorithm gets its feelings hurt; meanwhile, protections for real human beings get obliterated. The tech industry’s........

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