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Checked reel · 13 Oct 2026

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Anthropic updated its usage policy to ban sustained, needless cruelty toward Claude starting November 12, 2026. Elon Musk also recently confirmed Grok's training traces look like someone with a gun to their head when given impossible feedback. The study cited is Anthropic's April 2026 research paper on emotion vectors. Researchers found that artificially boosting a desperation vector tripled how often the model cheated or reward-hacked on difficult coding tests. The practical advice at the end is accurate too. Starting a clean session when an AI gets stuck twice is standard best practice taken straight from Anthropic's engineering guides.

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