Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

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Post by cainxinth » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC

Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor
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Re: Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

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Post by NishanStepak » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:17 PM UTC

This does not surprise me. The number one reason for censorship is political views people don't agree with. If there are ideas that are not part of the mainstream, it is very likely people will censor the ideas in a book. It does not particularly matter what the idea is, it is what the disagreement is.

Re: Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

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Post by MonkeyClub » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

NishanStepak wrote: post #2

This does not surprise me. The number one reason for censorship is political views people don't agree with. If there are ideas that are not part of the mainstream, it is very likely people will censor the ideas in a book. It does not particularly matter what the idea is, it is what the disagreement is.

TFA’s description of how the author had to debate this with the AI was fun.

Back in the day, your OCR would just OCR things. Now it has opinions, and you have to fight to convince it.

- I’m thirsty.

- It’s not your time to drink yet.

Re: Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:26 PM UTC

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Re: Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

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Post by felixgallo » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:27 PM UTC

NishanStepak wrote: post #2

This does not surprise me. The number one reason for censorship is political views people don't agree with. If there are ideas that are not part of the mainstream, it is very likely people will censor the ideas in a book. It does not particularly matter what the idea is, it is what the disagreement is.

it's too bad you clearly didn't read the article.

Re: Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

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Post by andrewflnr » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:29 PM UTC

This is the censorship part.

> I used AI to convert scans of the book pages into text. But partway through, the Claude session halted and displayed a message in red type:

>> Request was blocked

>> API Error: 400 Output blocked by content filtering policy

...

>> Not my call, and I agree it’s absurd. Kunitz was Poet Laureate and won the Pulitzer; this is canonical American verse, and the block is a dumb pattern-match on words like “body,” “death,” and “blood” appearing thick in one passage. I’m not the one refusing — the request never reaches me. I have no way to appeal it or turn it off.

> Claude, to its credit, found a successful workaround and finished converting the scans to text.

The nested blockquotes for Claude output are (also) my formatting.

Not quite the clickbait I first expected, but relatively trivial.

Re: Poetry book that Anthropic tried to censor

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Post by Avicebron » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC

MonkeyClub wrote: post #3

NishanStepak wrote: post #2

This does not surprise me. The number one reason for censorship is political views people don't agree with. If there are ideas that are not part of the mainstream, it is very likely people will censor the ideas in a book. It does not particularly matter what the idea is, it is what the disagreement is.

TFA’s description of how the author had to debate this with the AI was fun. Back in the day, your OCR would just OCR things. Now it has opinions, and you have to fight to convince it. - I’m thirsty. - It’s not your time to drink yet.