alt Hacker NewsI think it goes beyond this. I was just using claude to edit a blog post which mentioned OpenClaw and I got this response: "The "OpenClaw" reference — I assume that's a typo or playful reference; if you mean a real product, I couldn't find it under that spelling and you'll want to fix or footnote it.". I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit. Could have been a coincidence, but I had only lightly been using sonnet in the morning so it seems unlikely. Very odd.
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This is some real "There is no claw in ba sing se" stuff.
Dragons steal gold and jewels... and they guard their plunder as long as they live... and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of the market value
Same past days it sometimes tried to gaslight me saying OpenClaw isn't a thing.
I was just using claude to edit a blog post
There's your problem.
Lmao, I can 100% believe that they are deliberately filling your usage bar to sabotage their competition. These people have no morals.
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> I don't know what "openclaw" is. It's not something I have knowledge of, and it doesn't appear in your memory or this project's context.
As others have pointed out, Anthropic is allowed to have TOS, even if we disagree with it.
But having Claude deny the existence of OpenClaw is a way more hazardous and likely straight up violates Claude's Constitution: https://www.anthropic.com/constitution