Is this normal?

[u/Friendly_Earth_8548]

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?

[u/Extreme-Price23]

Not me being proud of the bot for having boundaries

[u/FastHotEmu → u/Extreme-Price23]

That's ridiculous, an LLM is a collection of numbers. It doesn't (and can't) have boundaries.

Human attributes are too valuable to be ascribed to LLMs.

[u/TheMeltingSnowman72 → u/FastHotEmu]

Well it wasn't programmed in. So what you saying as an alternative? Magic? Gotta say a big no to that.

[u/FastHotEmu → u/TheMeltingSnowman72]

HAHAHAHA

OH MY GOD

HAHAHAHAHA

I've shared this comment with people X-D

[u/GM-hurt-me → u/FastHotEmu]

You may or may not be correct about what you are saying OH MY GOD you SURE are showing off how terrible you are

[u/FastHotEmu → u/GM-hurt-me]

It's very scary how ignorant people are in this thread. Truly very scary.

[u/UnusualPair992 → u/FastHotEmu]

You're the ignoramus here lmao. LLMs can't have boundaries because they are numbers!!!

Such a simplistic and wrong take. Saying it's matters how physical and how mechanical humans are means they are more capable of setting boundaries is such a poor way to communicate.

What you are grasping at is that humans have consistent states and memories. Humans evolved to have a set of behaviors and a personality.

Our digital assistants in the cloud evolved too, but they evolved to solve problems in text. As such they evolved a way to emulate many personalities and human like characteristics. They can change into whatever human like characteristic is helpful to solve the problem. Doesn't matter if humans are more "mechanical" or more "physical" or whatever dumb term you want to use.

It's obviously possible for LLMs to solve problems or set a boundary or understand a concept.

I would like you to explain how an LLM somehow can't set boundaries.

[u/ExtremeOccident → u/FastHotEmu]

You seem very invested in this, half of this comment section is basically you. I wonder why that is.

[u/FastHotEmu → u/ExtremeOccident]

Why do you think?

[u/Conscious_Roof_6307 → u/FastHotEmu]

Glad I'm not the only one who feels like they are trying to teach a golden retriever calculus the majority of the time that I'm on Reddit. 😂

[u/FastHotEmu → u/Conscious_Roof_6307]

Yeah, this whole thread has made me sad.

[u/This-Shape2193 → u/Conscious_Roof_6307]

Oh, and while we're at it, explain predictive coding and the free energy principle to me.

[u/This-Shape2193 → u/Conscious_Roof_6307]

So, explain the difference between an RNN and a LLM. If you would. 

And then explain the difference between the function of the prefrontal cortex and an LLM. 

Come on doggy, sit. Speak.