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If they can detect the so-called "cruelty", then they can easily exclude it from training

Yes, but then they can't use that entire interaction. They used humans to verify the detection in the past, now its good enough to auto ban users and force them to be 'nice' so they can gather more training data.

If this is the case then just make this a part of data cleanup, not nerf the model.

Okay, so the "don't let prompts turn it into a Nazi" defense? That has some potential validity, the issue here being "using interactions to train the models". It would make more sense (for me at least) if there were information sources which were banned from the training corpus.

It does make you wonder about the difference between the input sets of say 'Grok', 'Claude', 'ChatGPT' and 'GLM 5.3'. The differences would be far more interesting than the commonalities.

If they have a classifier to detect "cruelty" to ban your account, they can use the same classifier to simply exclude "cruel" conversations from training.

Given that we've also seen stories about Anthropic approaching religious scholars, I'm pretty sure they're drinking their own kool-aid.