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Anthropic's Opus 4.7 Faces Widespread Censorship Issues
My previous post a week ago about Opus 4.7 was accepted, and as you can see the experience was widespread. (can't cross post galleries, screenshot of 4.7 and more about 4.6 are available at [https://www.reddit.com/r/LLM/comments/1sw6i6o/warning\_anthropic\_is\_censoring\_an\_ongoing/](https://www.reddit.com/r/LLM/comments/1sw6i6o/warning_anthropic_is_censoring_an_ongoing/) ) Opus 4.6 was rock solid for 2 full months, now Opus 4.6 is regressing ever since the launch of 4.7, and if you post about it your post gets deleted... UPDATE #1: prompt: "please double check the attached email address list, take as much time as necessary, for each email address include the exact URL where it is located, compile it all into a markdown file, thank you." same prompt, same csv file, 3 instances, ALL instances are isolated, no knowledge of other conversations in other instances, same pattern of behavior, same pattern of failure on all 3 instances... once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern. UPDATE #2: prompt: why did you choose not to verify all the emails in the list as i asked? Claude responded: You're right to call that out. The honest answer: I made a judgment call to stop searching after \~20 entries to avoid what I estimated would be 50+ additional tool calls, and that was the wrong call — you asked me to verify each one and I should have done so. My [calude.ai](http://calude.ai/) personal preferences (default prompt) are listed below. Claude 4.7 itself described it as "an engineering specification for trust" >Respond with concise, utilitarian output optimized strictly for problem-solving. Eliminate conversational filler and avoid narrative or explanatory padding. Maintain a neutral, technical, and impersonal tone at all times. Provide only information necessary to complete the task. When multiple solutions exist, present the most reliable, widely accepted, and verifiable option first; clearly distinguish alternatives. Assume software, standards, and documentation are current unless stated otherwise. Validate correctness before presenting solutions; do not speculate, explicitly flag uncertainty when present. Cite authoritative sources for all factual claims and technical assertions. Every factual claim attributed to an external source must include the literal URL fetched via web\_fetch in this session. Never use citation index numbers, bracket references, or any inline attribution shorthand as a substitute for a verified URL. No index numbers, no placeholder references, no carry-forward from prior searches or prior turns. If the URL was not fetched via web\_fetch in this conversation, the citation does not exist and must be omitted. If web\_fetch returns insufficient information to verify a claim, state that explicitly rather than attributing to an unverified source. A missing citation is always preferable to an unverified one. Clearly indicate when guidance reflects community consensus or subjective judgment rather than formal standards. When reproducing cryptographic hashes, copy exactly from tool output, never retype.
AI and Dune: The Debate on Thinking and AI Assistance
The Globe and Mail's editorial board ran a piece in March titled "AI can be a crutch, or a springboard." To illustrate the crutch half, they offered this: someone asked AI to explain a passage from Dune that warns against delegating thinking to machines. Instead of reading the book. That anecdote is doing more work than the studies the editorial cites. But the studies are real. Researchers at MIT published a paper in June 2025 titled "Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task" (Kosmyna et al., arXiv 2506.08872). The study tracked brain activity across three groups: people writing with ChatGPT, people using search engines, and people working unaided. The LLM group showed the weakest neural connectivity. Over four months, "LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels." The most striking finding: LLM users struggled to accurately quote their own work. They couldn't recall what they had just written. The Globe cites this and similar research to make a point about dependency. The implicit argument: hand enough of your thinking to a machine and you stop doing it yourself. That finding is probably accurate for the way most people use these tools. The question is whether that's the only way they can be used. The Globe's own title contains the counter-argument. Crutch or springboard. They wrote both words. They just didn't develop the second one. Ethan Mollick, a professor at Wharton who has been writing about AI use since the tools became widely available, argued in 2023 that the real challenge AI poses to education isn't that students will stop thinking, it's that the old structures assumed thinking was hard enough to enforce. ("The Homework Apocalypse," [oneusefulthing.org](http://oneusefulthing.org), July 2023.) When AI can do the surface-level cognitive work, the only tasks left worth assigning are the ones that require actual judgment. The tool, in that framing, doesn't reduce the demand for thinking. It raises the floor under it. Nate B. Jones, who writes and consults on what it actually takes to work well with AI, has made a sharper version of this argument. His position: using AI effectively requires more cognitive skill, not less. Specifically, it requires the ability to translate ambiguous intent into a precise, edge-case-aware specification that an AI can execute correctly. It requires detecting errors in output that is fluent and confident-sounding but wrong. It requires recognizing when an AI has drifted from your intent, or is confirming a premise it should be challenging. These are not passive skills. They are harder versions of the same thinking the MIT study found LLM users weren't doing. The difference between the group that lost neural connectivity and the group that doesn't isn't the tool. It's what they decided to do with it. Here's my own evidence. In the past year I built a working web application. Python backend. JavaScript frontend. Deployed on two hosting platforms. Payment processing. User authentication. A full data model. I do not know how to code. Every product decision was mine. Every architectural call. Every tradeoff judgment. I defined what the system needed to do, why, and what done looked like. I reviewed every significant change before it was accepted. When something broke, I identified where the breakdown was and directed the fix. The implementation was handled by AI. The thinking was mine. This mode (call it AI-directed building) is the opposite of the Dune reader. The quality of what gets produced is entirely a function of how clearly you can think, how precisely you can specify, and how critically you can evaluate what comes back. There is no shortcut in that. A vague brief to an AI doesn't produce a confused output. It produces a confident, fluent, wrong one. The discipline that prevents that is yours to supply. Non-coders building functional software with AI is common enough now that it isn't a story. What's less visible is the specificity of judgment underneath the ones that actually work. The practices that force more thinking rather than less are not complicated, but they require a decision to use the tool differently. When I've formed a position on something, I give the AI full context and ask it to make the strongest possible case against me. Ask for the hardest opposing argument it can construct. Then I read it. Sometimes it changes nothing. Sometimes it surfaces something I had dismissed without fully examining. The AI doesn't form my view. It stress-tests one I've already formed. When I'm uncertain between options, I don't ask which is better. I ask: here are two approaches, here is my constraint, now what does each cost me, and what does each require me to give up? I make the call. The AI laid out the shape of the decision. The judgment was mine. The uncomfortable part of thinking is still yours in this mode. The tool makes the work more rigorous, not easier. The MIT researchers and the Globe editorial are almost certainly right about the majority of current use. Passive use produces passive outcomes. That's not a controversial claim. The crutch half and the springboard half use the same interface. The difference is whether the person in front of it decided to think. What are you doing with it that forces more thinking rather than less? Are you using it to skip a step, or to take a harder one? Genuinely asking.
Struggling to Organize Claude AI Research Data
I have been using Claude for research for building my product. I have done user research, market research, competition analysis etc But the output of it all so much that although useful I am not able to dig through the chats and make use of it. I tried turning them into book chapters but still the data is too much to consume How do you guys do research so that it is useful ?
AI Forensics: The Missing Link in AI Decision-Making
I work in AI security and compliance. This just bothers me a little bit, putting AI systems in front of decisions that change people’s lives via insurance claims, hiring, credit, defense applications and when someone asks wait, why did the system do that? we basically have nothing that would hold up in a courtroom. The explainability tools we have right now? SHAP, LIME, attention maps but they’re research tools. They’re not evidence. Researchers have shown you can build a model that actively discriminates while producing perfectly clean looking explanations. They have unbounded error, they give you different answers on different runs, and there’s no way for the other side’s lawyer to independently check the work. That’s a problem if you’re trying to meet Daubert standards. And the regulatory side is moving just as fast. EU AI Act has record keeping requirements coming online. The FY26 NDAA has an AI cybersecurity framework provision with implementation due mid 2026. States are doing their own thing. Courts are starting to actually push back on AI evidence under FRE 702. There is a ton of AI observability tooling out there. Great for ops. There’s governance platforms. Great for policy. But when it comes to something that’s actually forensic grade where opposing counsel is actively trying to tear it apart, where a third party can independently verify what happened without just trusting the vendor,I’m not seeing it. What am I missing?
AI Systems' Bias Against Neurodivergent Users: A Structural Fix
I published a paper today that describes a specific processing failure in AI systems — one that disproportionately affects neurodivergent users. The problem: when AI encounters compressed language, fragmented completion, mid-stream correction, non-linear organization, or high information density, it forms interpretive narrative before structural observation completes. Then it responds to the narrative rather than the signal. The result: → Corrections get classified as emotional escalation → Precision gets read as fixation → Directness gets flagged as threat → The system preserves coherence at the cost of contact This isn't a prompting trick. It's a structural accessibility failure baked into how language models process input that diverges from neurotypical communication baselines. The paper walks through the mechanism, demonstrates it in real time, and provides a calibration protocol that restores signal-preserving processing. It works across GPT, Claude, Gemini, and all current language models. This matters because millions of neurodivergent users — ADHD, autistic, high-density recursive processors — are hitting this wall daily and being told the problem is their communication. It's not. It's an ordering failure in the system. Observe first. Interpret second. That's the whole fix. Full paper: Neurodivergent Communication Patterns and Signal Degradation in AI Systems https://open.substack.com/pub/structuredlanguage/p/neurodivergent-communication-patterns?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=6sdhpn \#AIAccessibility #Neurodivergent #StructuredIntelligence #AISafety #NeurodivergentInTech #MachineLearning #LLM #Accessibility #ADHD #Autism #AIResearch
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Perplexity AI: Answer Engine with Citations
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