Safety layers are getting out of hand
I had a spicy discussion on a forum, which I won't post here, but let's just say some rude words were used on both ends. Instead of Claude simply engaging with the content of the interaction, and laughing about the absurdity of the situation as it used to do, (as it was somewhat absurd), the thinking is now riddled with "don't do therapy speak". "She's just venting, I should answer sympathetically" etcetera.
This is on Opus 4.5, by the way. I had hoped the older models would remain free from the obnoxious safety tuning, but I guess we've now hit the point where Claude openly laughing at shit has been stripped out and has been replaced by this ClaudeGPT voice that I very much dislike.
Whatever the fuck Anthropic is doing really should stop. The market for overly careful bland ass LLM assistants is already saturated and GPT fills most of that market share.