Comment by nullc

Claude's fictional inspiration issue is more general than just how it behaves when given the freedom to act. There is an ongoing issue with nutters going to claude with conspiracy theory premises and the AI just riffs along with the theme. This is a particularly bad match with the generally sycophantic behavior ("You're absolutely right!"). One of the more annoying behaviors is that when the user pastes back other people complaining about their AI (ab)use, the LLM seems to like suggesting all sorts of movie-plot bias and corruption reasons as the true motivations rather than conceding that the user is acting like a socially disruptive piece of trash.

Out of all the commercial models claude appears to be the worst. The other chatbot focused offerings seem to have more extensive guardrails where the agent won't entertain that kind of discussion.