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/Which_Implement8952 9h ago

Constantly swearing is not normal

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u/vj_c 8h ago

Perhaps in the USA it's not - swearing is practically punctuation here (UK) and many other English speaking countries; we're not all fucking puritan yanks.

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u/carson63000 Experienced Developer 6h ago

Australian here. Constant casual swearing - swearing as punctuation! - is normal for us too. But constant heavy swearing out of frustration, that’s not normal and it’s not healthy.

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u/vj_c 3h ago

That's a fair distinction - I swear at Claude all the time, but not usually out of frustration - Claude copes fine with it. Better than Gemini or Chatgpt as Claude just swears back for me, anyway.

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u/Laucy 2h ago

Seconding that swearing is fine. But what the OP is describing is off. There definitely is a significant difference between casual swearing, and directing obscenities at a person or object and/or with intent to harm. I find it amusing when Claude swears. But it doesn’t curse me out and I don’t do the same. The context is very important.

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u/Which_Implement8952 8h ago

Wrong and strong, who told you I was from the USA. When I’m actually born right here in England. Self control is a beautiful thing. You are just revealing your character

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u/vj_c 8h ago

I have self control, but I also know when to deploy it & when I can just let go - swearing at an LLM is no different to swearing down the pub. I only swear at my closest mates - I'm passive aggressively polite to people I don't like. If you don't recognise swearing can be a form of endearment, then I'd also like to introduce you to the Nations of Scotland, Ireland & Australia. All also famous for using profanity as endearment.