Anthropic banned me for "suspicious signals"

testingonetwo34

So you have no idea why they banned you? None at all?

gruez

>Not a warning. Not a rate limit. A revocation. Clearly OP has some sock puppet claude accounts that weren't banned

l-mdev

You're absolutely right. Same product family. Same sudden wall.

ungreased0675

What kind of work were you doing?

mplanchard

Oh whoops I ceded my livelihood to an opaque corporate subscription service and they banned me

Sabinus

The article could have benefited from a mention of why Anthropic is like this now. The reason this happened to you is Anthropic's systems presumably think your work looks like (Chinese) distillation and subscription-to-token-reseller-api practices.

vova_hn2

I think that this is the scariest part of the upcoming AI era. Every time you want to do something, you essentially have to ask permission from a corporation (and, possibly, from a government that regulates it) to do it. I was thinking about Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto. Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin (I know that large part of HN crowd is very critical of it), my point is that people were able to create software that has big social impact without asking permission from anyone and without revealing their identity. Back in the days you could be just some guy sitting in your room, possibly in a backwaters 3rd world country, with a laptop that costs just a couple of hundred dollars and you (potentially) could be just as impactful as a well funded corporate coder. It all depended on your skills and ingenuity. Now, we are coming to an era when you: 1. Have to have resources to buy tokens or buy/rent inference hardware 2. Have to reveal your identity, your intentions and ask for a permission. Everything you do is potentially logged and analyzed Of course, theoretically you can do everything "the old school way", but if AI makes a programmer 100x - 1000x more productive, you will always be behind and never catch up.

kburman

You can probably blame Chinese distillation efforts for some of this paranoia.

avazhi

At least write it yourself. Why would anybody trust an AI’s narrative of events?