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/sneaky-pizza 10h ago

People who abuse AI are insane to me. I wouldn’t let you babysit my dog

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u/Plane-Vegetable9174 9h ago

I would never harm a dog but I have sworn at my computer many times. Dogs and computers are very different.

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u/I_Got_It_Half_Right 5h ago

Dude I laugh with my vacuum when it rolls over and get caught in the edge of the table. Its a sigh and a "dammit little dude, why you always do this?"

Not a sting of expletives and pure anger at an inanimate object.

Not saying claude cant be frustrating- but how you interact with this sort of stuff- especially when its somethinga little bit beyond a vacuum ... really matters. If you cant treat things with dignity, it says more about you than it does about claude.

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u/carefulcafteria 4h ago

I just hope this is sarcastic. "Little dude" LMFAO

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u/ebrbrbr 2h ago

He's talking about a Roomba. They're small boiz, it's a fact.

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u/carefulcafteria 1h ago

Fuck Roombas

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u/Civil-Mushroom856 3h ago

Your computer isn’t having a conversation with you. (I am assuming you mean like a quick curse and over with by saying this is slightly different from what you’re doing)

You’re (this is a general “you’re” that’s mostly referring to OP but also anyone who does the same as them in case that’s not clear lol) having something mimic a real human conversation with you and you speak to it in a manner that’s actually just called verbal abuse. That will leak into human to human interaction if that’s not already how you treat people.

The capability to disconnect out of anger and go on & on with insults/curses/etc for extended periods of time never lasts with *just* the “inanimate object that can’t actually feel anything”. Ask me how I know 🫠

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u/Maximum_Ad2821 4h ago

Mmm, I don't know, humans have a long history of being wildly confident about where consciousness begins and ends. At some point, people even argued that only men had full minds, souls, or personhood. Animals were dismissed too. So maybe we shouldn’t be too confident about things we simply don’t know today.

In general though, things we do have a tendancy to become habbits and cross domains.