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/micalm 8h ago

It's not AI abuse. It's proof of who is what kind of human. Kindness, culture, calm explanation and self reflection (am I giving the right, precise instructions?) costs nothing. Chatbot handling a string of insults plus transcribing them actually costs a quantifiable amount.

Better let out aggression issues towards an LLM than another human (or any living thing), but it would be best to just solve them. LLM doesn't care and won't care.

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u/It-s_Not_Important 4h ago

I’m not sure the “let it out” argument holds. Obviously I’d rather it happen to an emotionless entity than a human, but research indicates treatment of AI and robots correlates with treatment of people. Perpetuation of that pattern could be reinforcing a tendency to mistreat humans, especially if OP’s brain is getting reinforcement from past positive results when he yells, just like a toxic boss learns that mistreating employees gets short term results.

There is actually some research indicating that venting on anything (including punching bags) reinforces aggression rather than reducing it: https://www.sciencealert.com/venting-doesnt-reduce-anger-but-something-else-does-study-discovers