ryan_greenblatt's Shortform

ryan_greenblatt

This is a special post for quick takes by ryan_greenblatt. Only they can create top-level comments. Comments here also appear on the Quick Takes page and All Posts page.

Anthropic's Consumer ToS prohibits using Claude to cause "detriment of any type, including reputational harms", technically broad enough to ban using Claude to write criticism.

I asked Claude to comment and Claude wrote: "That clause is embarrassingly overbroad. So now we're both in violation."

TBC, this doesn't seem like that big of a deal, my understanding is that this sort of broad clause is standard in Terms of Service (ToS). But I still think they should definitely change this...

ToS: https://anthropic.com/legal/consumer-terms

Claude's commentary: https://claude.ai/share/9c5a58a4-b300-42c8-a6f5-9d8318b15dc9

(Cross post from X/twitter. ^[1] )

I'm not sure if this is the sort of thing I should post on LW, but it does seem like useful info and it is funny. ↩︎

3lilkim20258mo

I remember, at most a few months back, watching some people debate whether LLMs could come up with clever original jokes. I guess they can, now.

7ryan_greenblatt8mo

You should read the transcript before coming to too strong of a conclusion about Claude's capabilities: https://claude.ai/share/9c5a58a4-b300-42c8-a6f5-9d8318b15dc9

TL;DR: Ryan started the chat by drafting the tweet:

Anthropic's Consumer ToS prohibits using Claude to cause "detriment of any type, including reputational harms", technically broad enough to ban criticism.
Claude wrote the following critique:

and asked Claude to write a critique. So Ryan came up with the idea for the joke.

ryan_greenblatt's Shortform

19

Ω 5

ryan_greenblatt's Shortform

19

Ω 5