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This is semi-unrelated, but I tried to log in to Claude today and saw that Anthropic had banned my account. I only used Claude to ask 3-4 questions, so I guess the problem was that one of them was intended to see how Claude will self-censor on shady questions.

The moral of the story is don't ask Claude anything out of the ordinary, as maybe now I'm on a list somewhere.



Reminds me of when Bing would slam the ‘end conversation’ button wherever you (or it) hit any hidden tripwires. You literally couldn’t ask it what topics to avoid, because that was one of them.


You can appeal here: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8241253-trust-and-...

They seem to ban a lot of accounts "by mistake" or very aggressively but they also do unban. There are quite a few cases on /r/ClaudeAI subreddit with Anthropic employees directing them to the above link.


I did appeal (the error message informs you you can), but do I want to use an LLM that might randomly ban me?




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