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Re: Banned by Anthropic?

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Post by rvz »

joshribakoff wrote: post #44
rvz wrote: post #14

This site's domain name is at risk of being targeted by Anthropic's lawyers over trademark violation. Got to think about changing the domain name before they do it for you.

Sure, and Anthropic would be at risk for legal fees for the defendant under anti-SLAPP laws. And would be fueling the Streisand effect.

> Sure, and Anthropic would be at risk for legal fees for the defendant under anti-SLAPP laws.

Surely that went well for C̶l̶a̶w̶b̶o̶t̶, OpenClaw who...changed their name?

> And would be fueling the Streisand effect.

Honestly, they do not care. With a valuation of 1T in private markets with tens of billions in revenue, they can afford to go after anyone with the slightest trademark infringement if it gets popular.

We had auto-banning of accounts before Anthropic. Google, Paypal have done this and it is not okay. This no different, but the point is: they. do. not. care. about. anyone.

All they will ask for, is for them to change the domain name.

Re: Banned by Anthropic?

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Post by dlcarrier »

adrinavarro wrote: post #18

Kind of unrelated but: my father tried gifting my brother a subscription but entered the wrong email. Money and subscription are both gone — UI just doesn't have the option of amending, cancelling or resending it. For the last couple weeks, dad's gone into a rabbit hole of trying to reach support——any kind of (useful) support. No dice. Thankfully it's just a few dollars gone into the void. If only they had the tools…

I know what to do!

I have an email address that old people often often assume is their address, so I often get confirmation emails for medical procedures that under HIPAA should not be sent unless unless the address has been verified.

The easiest way to stop them is to email the company any let them know they just leaked personal health information and that they should verify addresses. That gets things fixed real quick.

Well, Anthropic touts itself as HIPAA compliant, so if you can contact Anthropic's legal department, let them know that not verifying email addresses could lead to a HIPAA violation. In the overwhelming likelihood that they've made it difficult to contact their legal department, you can file a HIPAA complaint with the NHS (https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/filing-a-complaint/index.html) and let them know that Anthropic claims to be HIPAA compliant but does not verify the ownership of email addresses before assigning them to a client's account, which may contain personal health information, which could be leaked en masse.

Another option is to file a charge back with the credit card company, and let them know that due to Anthropic's web page not complying with the ADA's WCAG, you are unable to access your account.

Re: Banned by Anthropic?

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Post by TarqDirtyToMe »

saintfire wrote: post #59
TarqDirtyToMe wrote: post #55

Were all of these accounts banned or just get flagged chats? Several of these seem like reasonable cases to flag. Take “how can I be 100% sure the circuit is dead before I touch the wires”. AI is useful, but it’s not at the point where we should trust it to walk amateurs through working on live mains.

Well, they're presumably dead mains. I really don't think it'd struggle with the correct procedure, either. It's very well documented how to test (and lock out) electrical circuits. Whether or not they follow it correctly is another thing but it's not like you couldn't search it up and have false confidence before AI. This isn't manufacturing bombs or heart surgery in 10 easy steps.

I agree on both counts but don’t think it’s unreasonable to have safeguards around this kind of ask. With no additional information, this flag seems overly sensitive but we don’t have the full context. I’d expect the occasional superfluous flag when you’re in this neighborhood of conversation and that that’ll happen less as models improve

My main point is _flagging_ is very different from banning.

Flagging is a minor inconvenience just start a new chat or look it up the old fashion way. Not every use case will be as serviceable by every model today.

For what it’s worth, I asked Claude with opus 4.7/4.6 it gave me an answer straight away

Re: Banned by Anthropic?

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Post by harrisoned »

All this look so dystopic to me. Even without assuming all those are real (which i doubt), i have heard similar stories from friends and others. The level of dependency people are getting from those services is surreal.

I was thinking the other day, "since social media is kinda wearing off, could 'LLM As A Service' be the new addictive thing for the masses?" because i'm hearing horror stories of people who are outsourcing their brains, in some cases their feelings, to those services, and i personally saw a case of a 'high level professional' asking an LLM how it should respond to somebody in real time during a Whatsapp conversation. It is in fact a drug, and it tricks you very well into thinking you should rely on it.

Also when reading this piece (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47790041) earlier, i thought about it again. Nowadays instead of searching for something and being forced to learn, those services spoon-feeds contents of dubious accuracy for everybody, which will not only cause trouble for them eventually, but also creates a stream of revenue based on people's cognitive laziness, to not use harsher words.

Social media is/was bad and it relied on a similar mechanism, but i feel this is much worse. People crying as if their brains where took away is proof of that.

Re: Banned by Anthropic?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

bakugo wrote: post #37
manyatoms wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In 10 years it'll probably be affordable to have 1TB of (v)ram in a home computer. Will the model sizes keep getting bigger such that the large providers have much of an infra moat compared to local home inference?

Have you been paying attention to hardware prices recently...?

If eventually the home models are good enough that you dont even need a cloud AI provider, what happens to their bottom line? Local AI can do local tool calling just like Claude Code can do.

Re: Banned by Anthropic?

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Post by dzhiurgis »

timpera wrote: post #2

It seems that Anthropic is growing so rapidly that they don't really care about losing a few customers here and there with false positives. I still think it's crazy that you can never speak with a human there, even after spending $200/month on their service.

I was unable to cancel their pro plan without paying for a missed month first. They kept trying to charge my card for few months.

Re: Banned by Anthropic?

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Post by tamimio »

I used AI for some tasks a little bit before but I stopped intentionally, besides all the usual reasons like privacy and all, but the codependency was very obvious, you start to become almost entirely reliant on its answers instead of actually thinking about it or researching it, later you would pay premiums or feel lost if you get banned, and worse, people might actually get dumber at this rate, using it as a brain-as-service.
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