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

Post by direwolf20 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 11:02 AM UTC

user34283 wrote: post #469

Aldipower wrote: post #409

I was recently kicked out from ChatGPT because I wrote "a*hole" in a context where ChatGPT constantly kept repeating nonsense! I find the ban by OpenAI to be very intrusive. Remember, ChatGPT is a machine! And I did not hurt any sentient being with my statement, nor was the GPT chat public. As long as I do not hurt any feeling beings with my thoughts, I can do whatever I want, can't I? After all, as the saying goes,…

That is one of the reasons why I think X's Grok, while perhaps not state of the art, is an important option to have. Out of OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, it is the only provider that I trust not to erroneously flag harmless content. It is also the only provider out of those that permits use for legal adult content. There have been controversies over it, resulting in some people, often of a certain political orientati…

Post by direwolf20 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 11:04 AM UTC

9rx wrote: post #451

urbandw311er wrote: post #431

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Do we though? It’s an important question about liberty - at what point does a business become so large that it’s not allowed to decide who gets to use it? There was a famous case here in the UK of a cake shop that banned a customer for wanting a cake made for a gay wedding because it was contra the owners’ religious beliefs. That was taken all the way up to the Supreme Court IIRC.

Yes, it is not too much to require that that if you offer something to someone that the receiving party is able to have a conversation with you. You can still reject them in the end, but being able to ask the people involved questions is a reasonable expectation — but many of these big tech companies have made it effectively impossible. If you want to live life as a hermit, good on ya, but then maybe accept that life…

Post by direwolf20 » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 11:06 AM UTC

Markoff wrote: post #398

PunchyHamster wrote: post #394

We really need some law to stop "you have been banned and we won't even tell you actual reason for it", it's become a plague, made worse with automated systems giving out a ban

Judging by his EUR currency the guy is from EU, so he HAS law available for him to protect himself. Recital (71) of the GDPR "The data subject should have the right not to be subject to a decision, which may include a measure, evaluating personal aspects relating to him or her which is based solely on automated processing and which produces legal effects concerning him or her or similarly significantly affects him or…

Post by fauigerzigerk » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 11:13 AM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #480

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #476

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I agree with you completely, but society will never stop being scared of thoughts and feelings. As an atheist, I have noticed that atheists are only slightly less prone to this paranoia and will happily resort to science and technology to justify and enforce ever tighter restrictions and surveillance mechanisms to keep control.

Arguably, to the point of religious fervor. Take the AI boom, some people genuinely believe (<- note that key word) that AI becoming self-aware and dominant is inevitable, and that anyone who did not do their best to make that happen will be punished. Roko's Basilisk, which is the digital version of Pascal's Wager, but wrapped in supposed rationalism and tech bro stuff.

Post by dragonwriter » Fri, Jan 23, 2026, 11:17 AM UTC

chii wrote: post #311

indiantinker wrote: post #210

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965

So why didn't this happen with electricity, water and food, but would with thinking capacity?