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I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by direwolf20 »

nawgz wrote: post #148
Aurornis wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Years ago I was involved in a service where we some times had to disable accounts for abusive behavior. I'm talking about obvious abusive behavior, akin to griefing other users. Every once in while someone would take it personally and go on a social media rampage. The one thing I learned from being on the other side of this is that if someone seems like an unreliable narrator, they probably are. They know the company…

> I'm talking about obvious abusive behavior, akin to griefing other users Right, but we're talking about a private isolated AI account. There is no sense of social interaction, collaboration, shared spaces, shared behaviors... Nothing. How can you have such an analogue here?

Attempting to coerce Claude to provide instructions to build a bomb

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by aanet »

laserDinosaur wrote: post #223
throwup238 wrote: post #117

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Anthropic has been flying by the seat of their pants for a while now and it shows across the board. From the terminal flashing bug that’s been around for months to the lack of support to instabilities in Claude mobile and Code for the web (I get 10-20% message failure rates on the former and 5-10% on CC for web). They’re growing too fast and it’s bursting the seams of the company. If there’s ever a correction in the…

The Pro plan quota seems to be getting worse. I can get maybe 20-30 minutes work done before I hit my 4 hour quota. I found myself using it more just for the planning phase to get a little bit more time out of it, but yesterday I managed to ask it ONE question in plan mode (from a fresh quota window), and while it was thinking it ran out of quota. I'm assuming it probably pulled in a ton of references from my project…

^ THIS

I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours.

What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by direwolf20 »

benjiro wrote: post #200
pixl97 wrote: post #151

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>if it's the real reason they got banned. I mean, what a country should do it put a law in effect. If you ban a user, the user can submit a request with their government issued ID and you must give an exact reason why they were banned. The company can keep this record in encrypted form for 10 years. Failure to give the exact reason will lead to a $100,000 fine for the first offense and increase from there up to suspe…

Companies will simply give some kind of standard answer, that is legally "cover our butts" and be done with it. Its like that cookie wall stuff, how much dark patterns are implemented. They followed the letter of the law, not the spirit of the law. To be honest, i can also see the point from the company side. Giving a honest answer can just anger people, to the point they sue. People are often not as rational as we a…

I think companies shouldn't ban people for reasons that would lead to successful lawsuits against the company.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by direwolf20 »

kstenerud wrote: post #110
ankit219 wrote: post #91

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My rudimentary guess is this. When you write in all caps, it triggers sort of a alert at Anthropic, especially as an attempt to hijack system prompt. When one claude was writing to other, it resorted to all caps, which triggered the alert, and then the context was instructing the model to do something (which likely would be similar to a prompt injection attack) and that triggered the ban. not just caps part, but that…

> When you write in all caps, it triggers sort of a alert at Anthropic I find this confusing. Why would writing in all caps trigger an alert? What danger does caps incur? Does writing in caps make a prompt injection more likely to succeed?

Many jailbreaks use allcaps

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by fluoridation »

quietsegfault wrote: post #238
fluoridation wrote: post #85

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"I'm glad this happened with Anthropic instead of Google, which provides Gemini, email, etc. or I would have been locked out of the actually important non-AI services as well." Non-disabled organization = the first party provider Disabled organization = me I don't know why they're using these weird euphemisms or ironic monikers, but that's what they mean.

He used “organization” because that’s what Anthropic called him, despite the fact he is a person and not an “organization”.

No, Anthropic didn't call him an organization. Anthropic's API returned the error "this organization has been disabled". What in that sentence implies that "this" is any human?

>Because what is meant by "this organization has been disabled" is fairly obvious. The object in Anthropic's systems belonging to the class Organization has changed to the state Disabled, so the call cannot be executed.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by genewitch »

aanet wrote: post #242
laserDinosaur wrote: post #223

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The Pro plan quota seems to be getting worse. I can get maybe 20-30 minutes work done before I hit my 4 hour quota. I found myself using it more just for the planning phase to get a little bit more time out of it, but yesterday I managed to ask it ONE question in plan mode (from a fresh quota window), and while it was thinking it ran out of quota. I'm assuming it probably pulled in a ton of references from my project…

^ THIS I've run out of quota on my Pro plan so many times in the past 2-3 weeks. This seems to be a recent occurrence. And I'm not even that active. Just one project, execute in Plan > Develop > Test mode, just one terminal. That's it. I keep getting a quota reset every few hours. What's happening @Anthropic ?? Anybody here who can answer??

sounds like the "thinking tokens" are a mechanism to extract more money from users?

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by direwolf20 »

kerblang wrote: post #216
xtracto wrote: post #215

That's why we should strive to use and optimize local LLMs. Or better yet, we should setup something that allows people to share a part of their local GPU processing (like SETI@home) for a distributed LLM that cannot be censored. And somehow be compensated when it's used for inference

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I don't see any such agreement here, and your comment is very rude toward the author.

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by fragmede »

sawjet wrote: post #220
spike021 wrote: post #118

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> where chat's will just stop working, simply ignoring new prompots, and otherwise go unresponsive I had this start happening around August/September and by December or so I chose to cancel my subscription. I haven't noticed this at work so I'm not sure if they're prioritizing certain seats or how that works.

I have noticed this when switching locations on my VPN. Some locations are stable and some will drop the connection while the response is streaming on a regular basis.

The Peets right next to the Anthropic office could be selling VPN endpoint service for quite the premium!

Re: I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?

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Post by genewitch »

Conscat wrote: post #161
thtmnisamnstr wrote: post #152

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Gemini CLI is a solid alternative to Claude Code. The limits are restrictive, though. If you're paying for Max, I can't imagine Gemini CLI will take you very far.

Gemini CLI regularly gets stuck failing to do anything after declaring its plan to me. There seems to be no way to un-lock it from this state except closing and reopening the interface, losing all its progress.

you should be able to copy the entire conversation and paste it in (including thinking/reasoning tokens).

When you have a conversation with an AI, in simple terms, when you type a new line and hit enter, the client sends the entire conversation to the LLM. It has always worked this way, and it's how "reasoning tokens" were first realized. you allow a client to "edit" the context, and the client deletes the hallucination, then says "Wait..." at the end of the context, and hits enter.

the LLM is tricked into thinking it's confused/wrong/unsure, and "reasons" more about that particular thing.

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