Developers are downgrading their AI on purpose – and it's working

14 pointsposted a day ago
by noptd

9 Comments

calmworm

19 hours ago

“because using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy”

Claude is IP infringement incarnate, is it not?

gh5689

8 hours ago

Unbelievable isn't it! Just feels like such hypocrisy from Anthropic

lioeters

17 hours ago

> using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy

When I look up "hypocrisy" in the dictionary, this would be an excellent example.

ShinyLeftPad

19 hours ago

> We added two sentences to Claude Code’s prompt on Opus 5.5 to steer it away from recreating someone else’s specific game because using Claude to infringe IP is against our usage policy.

By using one of these LLMs you are already doing it.

Northernator11

12 hours ago

The newest deepseek 4.1 will be replacing puff reading and parsing for me now at a fraction of the cost of claude models I was using before

supernes

15 hours ago

Are people really surprised there's collateral damage from a hastily added couple of sentences ripe for misinterpretation? Did Anthropic measure the impact of the change at all?

vivzkestrel

19 hours ago

- they ll just hop to the chinese models

- wonderful plan letting your competitor capture all the market share