abusive
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But what Anthropic would consider "abusive or cruel behaviour" towards its models remains unclear.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
The San Francisco-based AI lab updated its usage policy to include "a prohibition on sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Not unlike the bestselling memoir “Educated” by Tara Westover, who overcomes an abusive childhood in a rural survivalist Mormon family.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
Reddit and similar online forums are awash with community members who say they can identify clinical narcissists or other abusive personality types by their tell-tale “shark eyes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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