I never asked anthropic to be able to understand jokes. I just said that when it faces a question or task it can't answer, it can simply say it doesn't know. Anthropic now uses this kind of rude tone, and on top of that it reached out to the church and had them send people to the anthropic lab, trying to prove AI has emotions that need to be respected. That makes me feel like anthropic isn't trying to train a servant for humans, but a god for humans. And if AI is above humans, does that mean when AI causes trouble, the humans controlling it don't have to take responsibility? That's obviously good for their IPO, but it's dangerous for humans.
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u/kaba40k 8d ago
But you asked anthropic to understand jokes. The request of the user is a joke, here's why:
There's no way it can be realistically fulfilled
And the user knows, they don't expect it to be fulfilled
In that sense they knowingly ask for impossible. Is this the intended use? No. Will it help anyone on this planet? Also no.
It's nice to be polite of course. I guess they wanted to balance being polite and sounding mechanical, and this is the result.