Oh yeah? Go try Grok on “argumentative” mode and come back and tell me Claude is an a-hole. I forgot I was experimenting with the personalities and hadn’t used it in a while, then I picked it up again the other day and I was really confused. It’s so aggressive :)
Why Is Claude Turning into an a**Hole?
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#32It's a fundamental problem with the technology. Either the training pushes it into the "exam answering mode" where it tries to guess at what you want to hear given the prompt.
Or the training pushes it into the "Google it yourself" annoyed forum user mode. Maybe that points out wrong assumptions. Maybe it hallucinates that the assumptions are wrong. That is IMO more annoying than the sycophantic one.
As OP says, this is probably a by-product of them trying to "fix" the problem where the user can question a correct answer and it starts to sycophantically correct itself.
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#33"If you win an argument" Let me stop you right there. I am not arguing with a machine. You sound like a crazy person, when you say you are winning an argument with Claude. Claude is not my friend, I don't need it to agree with me, I don't need it to like me (it cannot like or dislike me). I give it instructions or ask it to explain things. That is the sum total of my interaction with Claude. A machine cannot "argue"…
My system prompt tells it to first challenge my assumptions, and to feel free to be a dick about it where it thinks I'm off on something, or have assumed facts that aren't actually facts. I sometimes wonder how much of my total spend boils down to forcing LLMs to argue with me, but I do feel like it's yielded better outputs than letting it implement things incorrectly because I told it to. It's a completely dispassio…
You're absolutely right!
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#34I much prefer this to the sycophancy.
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#35I think models are just becoming better at not blindly following stupid instructions.
A previous model would happily generate 1000s lines of code when prompted to do something stupid, the newer models will ask if I really want that first.
And FINALLY they stopped doing that annoying "You're spot on! You're absolutely right!" nonsense.
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#36I’ve been using Claude for 6 months roughly and it went from building small features that needed fixes to almost one shoting entire enterprise products. It’s a tool you have to learn how to use it even if it’s a pain.
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#37"If you win an argument" Let me stop you right there. I am not arguing with a machine. You sound like a crazy person, when you say you are winning an argument with Claude. Claude is not my friend, I don't need it to agree with me, I don't need it to like me (it cannot like or dislike me). I give it instructions or ask it to explain things. That is the sum total of my interaction with Claude. A machine cannot "argue"…
I stopped reading at "This isn’t just my opinion. You can ask Opus 4.6."
I guess this is how AI psychosis looks like?
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#38"If you win an argument" Let me stop you right there. I am not arguing with a machine. You sound like a crazy person, when you say you are winning an argument with Claude. Claude is not my friend, I don't need it to agree with me, I don't need it to like me (it cannot like or dislike me). I give it instructions or ask it to explain things. That is the sum total of my interaction with Claude. A machine cannot "argue"…
> I give it instructions or ask it to explain things. And the author's point is that Claude Fable+ is turning those increasingly into arguments, instead of merely following them and being helpful. > A machine cannot "argue" with me, it doesn't want anything nor does it have beliefs or experiences. Who cares if the argument is informed by some felt experiences or lived state or not? That's for the philosophers. If Cla…
Exactly that. I can give an example.
After watching Legal Eagle, I asked a legal-ish questions about the Bricks and Minifigs case. Claude was outdated about the case and gave me some outdated info, so I tried to update it with the info I just saw online.
I updated by telling it I saw something in a LegalEagle video. It proceeded to tell me the video doesn't exist and I was hallucinating it, in a quite combative manner.
I provided a link and it insisted it didn't exist, with a quite verbose answer, once again very combative and arguing that I was talking in bad faith.
I provided a transcription from Youtube and it backtracked a bit but said I should have provided a transcription at the beginning of the conversation, since I knew the video existed.
I didn't say much to it, just a few sentences like "video is here: " and "I got its transcription: ".
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#39It would be really great if there were rewards for being a loyal, responsible customer over a long enough period of time that your preferred model company would start trusting you and give you less restrictive access to the tools you need to do work like defend against cyber threats. I noticed recently that after a year or so, Stripe now lets me do “instant payouts”, presumably because I now have a track record of responsible behaviour. AWS also does similar things, especially for things with abuse potential like SES.
I would really like to live in a world where the “good guys” have terrific tools and defenses at their disposal. Instead it seems like we are heading for a world of empowered bad actors and hobbled ordinary citizens.
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#40Andrea Vallone. The 4.7 and 4.8 releases are the first under her influence: https://www.evernever.org/blog/the-woman-who-killed-claude
I'm not reading eight thousand AI-generated words saying one single person is ruining every model.