Claude AI will end ‘persistently harmful or abusive user interactions’
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Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot can now end conversations deemed “persistently harmful or abusive,” as spotted earlier by TechCrunch. The capability is now available in Opus 4 and 4.1 models, and will allow the chatbot to end conversations as a “last resort” after users repeatedly ask it to generate harmful content despite multiple refusals and attempts at redirection.
The goal is to help the “potential welfare” of AI models, Anthropic says, by terminating types of interactions in which Claude has shown “apparent distress.”
If Claude chooses to cut a conversation short, users won’t be able to send new messages in that conversation. They can still create new chats, as well as edit and retry previous messages if they want to continue a particular thread.
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