Anthropic now prohibits sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude. The bigger question isn't what the AI feels. It's what the person typing is practicing.
Tag: AI
Folklore
A man at church asked if AI could fix his wandering meetings. The answer turned out to be the oldest rule in data governance: write down what you decided and why.
The Wrong People Are Shipping
Mid-2000s, late twenties, and I got pulled into a funnel. Blogs were taking off. Everybody had an email list and a free PDF, and I wanted the free prize inside, so I signed up and read the thing. The copy was overwritten and wandering, wild claims stacked on top of each other, and somewhere underneath … Continue reading The Wrong People Are Shipping
Straw Man
I've lost arguments I was never in, with my wife and, with AI helping me build the case, at work. What a straw man costs and what I do instead.
The False Scream
AI-generated rock tracks have a tell — a big throaty scream at the top, every time, whether the song earns it or not. The machine knows what rock looks like. It has no idea why. That's not a music problem.
