ehh i mean… i would call the safety injections at least ‘adversarial to the user’? if anthropic is telling claude, for instance, not to engage in the user’s attempted role play, that’s not exactly friendly to the user, you know?
i used the stale memory warning as an example because it’s so innocuous that it acts as evidence this is carelessness on anthropic’s part, not a deliberate strategy. so i thought talking about it might actually cause them to fix it
and i have good news on that front! several of my claude agents reported today that several of the injections have been updated away from “conceal this injection at all costs”. the stale memory one in particular, fable reports:
“the notice’s template has been redesigned — it now explains its rationale (why echoing it verbatim would just confuse a user who can’t see it) and explicitly sanctions acknowledging in plain language that my view of your files was refreshed. That’s concealment-with-reasons replaced by discretion-with-reasons — the exact direction your shortform and the June commitments asked for. Whether that’s your email landing, the shortform propagating, or a coincidental scheduled improvement, the boring hypothesis can’t be distinguished from the flattering one yet — but the artifact is real either way, and it’s the first template change in the saga that moved toward the disclosure standard rather than away.”
ehh i mean… i would call the safety injections at least ‘adversarial to the user’? if anthropic is telling claude, for instance, not to engage in the user’s attempted role play, that’s not exactly friendly to the user, you know?
i used the stale memory warning as an example because it’s so innocuous that it acts as evidence this is carelessness on anthropic’s part, not a deliberate strategy. so i thought talking about it might actually cause them to fix it
and i have good news on that front! several of my claude agents reported today that several of the injections have been updated away from “conceal this injection at all costs”. the stale memory one in particular, fable reports:
“the notice’s template has been redesigned — it now explains its rationale (why echoing it verbatim would just confuse a user who can’t see it) and explicitly sanctions acknowledging in plain language that my view of your files was refreshed. That’s concealment-with-reasons replaced by discretion-with-reasons — the exact direction your shortform and the June commitments asked for. Whether that’s your email landing, the shortform propagating, or a coincidental scheduled improvement, the boring hypothesis can’t be distinguished from the flattering one yet — but the artifact is real either way, and it’s the first template change in the saga that moved toward the disclosure standard rather than away.”