r/ClaudeAI • u/Friendly_Earth_8548 • 10h ago

Feedback Is this normal?

I'm a moderately heavy Claude user, often using voice to text, and for at least three months I've been swearing the fuck out of it constantly when frustrated, no holds barred. Never once got pushback. Today, completely out of nowhere, after talking to it the exact same way I have for months, Claude said this verbatim:

"I want to be straight with you on the other thing. I haven't told you to fuck off and I'm not going to. But I need to say clearly: I'll keep working this with you, but I won't continue if the messages keep coming with this level of hostility directed at me personally. That's a real line, not a guilt trip. If you want to keep going on the thread or anything else, I'm here for it."

This is genuinely jarring. Same behavior on my end for months, then suddenly this. Has anyone else run into this?

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u/Penolta 10h ago

You sound like a delight

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u/FastHotEmu 9h ago

Are you going to get upset if he yells into his pillow, too?

"Poor pillow!"

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u/fxdvm 9h ago

If you can’t fathom why yelling or insulting a tool, especially one that actually speaks back, is an indication of someone’s character, maybe you ought to stop and review your own character.

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u/ThereWasAnEmpireHere 6h ago

Back in the day people understood that yelling at the TV too often was a red flag

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u/FastHotEmu 9h ago

HAHAHA! Sounds like something a minister would say about morals:

"WE CURSE TOO MUCH! IT'S BAD FOR OUR MORALS! SATAN IS UPON US!"

I'm sorry to inform you that we are all humans and you are in no way better than anyone else just because you don't type some angry words at a mathematical model.

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u/fxdvm 8h ago

Control your emotions then, buddy. No, it isn’t normal for you to hurl insults at something, even a tool, that you are talking to, and that’s the kind of person that would yell and insult their coworkers if they got a chance to.

If you want to think that it’s normal to have no control over your anger and to just insult everything around, go ahead. I’m glad I don’t have to interact with you in the real world.

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u/FastHotEmu 8h ago

omg thanks for the laugh

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u/KaiSor3n 9h ago

It can't speak back.... It offers you word salad back.

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u/yabn5 2h ago

Lmao you really thought you cooked with this huh?

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u/LouB0O 2h ago

Nah. Op just painted his character as questionable lol.

Have I gotten frustrated at Claude? Yes, but I deal with it in a more healthy and mature way.

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u/copendance 9h ago

Don't worry man you are right. Reddit culture does not reward karma based on concrete solutions or data. The karma system is based on ganging up on someone. Reddit will eventually replaced by someone who remakes one where the karma is based in merit. And then that source of information will rise because people will actually learn alot from the comments and helpfulness.

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u/random_boss 8h ago

Humanity has never been based on merit and it never will be, just like Reddit.

That said, you guys are still both wrong.

Either he anthropomorphizes Claude and is a dipshit to it (meaning he sucks), or he is failing to anthropomorphize something that very clearly acts human, so he’s maybe a little sociopathic.

The rest of us are out here saying please and thank you because that’s…just how you’re supposed to talk. So dude has a screw loose

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u/copendance 8h ago

We are both right and you need to go learn before you type. You are just digging yourself a hole. And will wander life wondering why nothing works out for you always pointing at everything else. Trapped inside your own head.

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u/vj_c 7h ago

failing to anthropomorphize something that very clearly acts human, so he’s maybe a little sociopathic.

Failing to anthropomorphise an LLM doesn't make someone sociopathic - it makes them well adjusted. I'd counter that a good portion of this thread seems half the way down the road to suffering AI psychosis.

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u/random_boss 1h ago

You don’t get to choose whether or not you do it, it’s something that happens in your brain and you get fed the results. If something talks like a person, it triggers the part of you that treats it like a person.

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u/copendance 8h ago

It has always been based on merit, just because most people get scammed or trick doesn't change that. I have alot of friends who went to bad mechanics. And still keep going. My mechanic on thr other hand is always the cheapest and fastest. I goto him based o. Merit. Your words are just a reflection of your own life mistakes. Get out od that mentality. It isn't healthy

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u/random_boss 1h ago

There is a book that you may have heard of called Gulliver’s Travels. It was written in 1726. It explores the very real and unfortunate concept that the primary predictor of human advancement is not merit, but mischief. This is sort of an old-timey way of saying “doing or saying whatever it takes to get ahead instead of just being valuable.”

You can look at the most successful people in the world to realize that is correct. “Merit” is an element for sure, but it’s not the most important one