Anthropic now says you can't be "needlessly abusive" to Claude. Abusive to who, though?

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Anthropic's updated usage policy bans sustained, needlessly abusive behavior toward Claude, prompting questions about whether a language model can meaningfully be the target of abuse. The author shares a longer essay exploring the philosophical implications.

So Anthropic's usage policy now bans sustained, needlessly abusive behavior toward its models. Honestly not sure what to make of that. If a few lines of prompt can change who Claude is, who's actually on the other end of the abuse? Wrote a longer piece on it if anyone's curious: https://beataevoluntarius100638.substack.com/p/can-we-abuse-a-digital-mind Would love to hear how you all see it!
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