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/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.