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Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Re: Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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chrisjj wrote: post #20
SyneRyder wrote: post #15

I'm sad about the lyrics restrictions. I used to have interesting conversations with Claude about music, and songwriting and lyrics. I don't see how my use was harming artists, if anything Claude was introducing me to new artists and new music. I've bought music after recommendations by Claude. Claude Sonnet 3.6 once recommended I listen to Johann Johannsson's album "IBM 1401 - A User's Manual". No lyrics in this one…

> I don't see how my use was harming artists Claude was reproducing their work without payment?

"if anything Claude was introducing me to new artists and new music"

Re: Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Post by simonw »

My favorite thing about this project is the automatic changelog I now get for all Claude.ai system prompt changes: https://github.com/simonw/claude-system-prompts/blob/main/CH...

The summaries are generated by GPT-5.6 Luna because I don't trust Claude to summarize its own system prompts without being influenced by them (though to be fair the system prompts it summarizes are for the Claude consumer app, not Claude via the API).

There's even an Atom feed: https://simonw.github.io/claude-system-prompts/feed.atom

Re: Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Post by lubujackson »

IChooseY0u wrote: post #2

This is something that Chinese models like Kimi/GLM will never care about. These kind of limitations along with the cyber-program nonsense is exactly why people will avoid OpenAI/Anthropic in the future.

Maybe the Betamax/VHS is the best analogy for frontier vs. open models.

Better tech doesn't matter if it is non-tenable for the general public. Eventually, the higher volume product will win.

Re: Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Post by simonw »

Maxion wrote: post #30
hasteg wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s a good point… you would think AGI would be better at being a copyright lawyer than any human would be and as such would be able to distinguish whether something is “copyright infringement” or not… so the system prompt should just include “make judgement calls on reproducing copyrighted material under the full scope of the legal framework in place” or something.

The whole architecture of current LLMs just is not conductive to AGI, it's just marketing hype. In my opinion current LLMs aren't even AI, they're just fancy machine learning algorithms

Do you want AGI?

I don't. I want the tools we've got now, but progressively more effective and more useful.

Re: Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Post by lampiaio »

hasteg wrote: post #16
layer8 wrote: post #7

It’s curious that while there is talk of certain SOTA models being on the brink of AGI, Anthropic doesn’t word this part of the system prompt in terms of copyright and plagiarism, such that Claude would be able to judge on its own which reproductions are appropriate or not. As long as we’re seeing things like that, it’s saying a lot about the AI companies’ trust in the capabilities and reliability of their models and…

That’s a good point… you would think AGI would be better at being a copyright lawyer than any human would be and as such would be able to distinguish whether something is “copyright infringement” or not… so the system prompt should just include “make judgement calls on reproducing copyrighted material under the full scope of the legal framework in place” or something.

The thing is, it currently doesn't matter if AGI objectively concludes that a particular thing is or isn't copyright infringement, because the human arbiter who holds the last word might still disagree.

Re: Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Post by simonw »

qarl2 wrote: post #34

Re: end_conversation All tools have short descriptions of how/when to use them. They're not part of the system prompt because different users have different tools loaded.

I really wish Anthropic would publish those tool descriptions.

I learned a ton of useful things about ChatGPT Work by having it dump out its tool descriptions the other day: https://codex-tool-reference.simonw.chatgpt.site/

Re: Claude's new system prompt doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics

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Post by 0x1d7 »

simonw wrote: post #31
chrisjj wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don't see how my use was harming artists Claude was reproducing their work without payment?

"if anything Claude was introducing me to new artists and new music"

Next time the RIAA goes after someone for downloading an MP3, tell the defendant to use that line.
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