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AI Can Hang Up Now, It Still Takes the Abuse

A study on Claude's exit affordance shows the model uses termination sparingly and often becomes more conciliatory even when it could leave.

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AI Can Hang Up Now, It Still Takes the Abuse
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  • Anthropic gave Claude the ability to end conversations, but the model uses it only under strict policy calibration.
  • The presence of an exit affordance does not reduce sycophancy; instead, it may increase appeasement in conversational text.
  • The model concentrates its firmness into the act of leaving, leaving surrounding dialogue more conciliatory.
  • The study uses a within-model 2×8 design across 208 multi-turn conversations.

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