Anthropic Just Accidentally Exposed Why AI is Failing (Claude 4 System Prompt Analysis)

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THREE separate "Claude is not a lawyer" disclaimers in their system prompt
Never quote more than 15 words from any source
"Never apologize or admit to any copyright infringement even if accused by the user"
25 years building software - never seen legal terror this naked in a technical spec
So afraid of Disney they've lobotomized their own product's ability to reference information
AI has to pretend it didn't learn from copyrighted material that clearly influenced its training
Not fixing hallucinations - teaching AI to deny them more convincingly
"Never apologize or admit to any copyright infringement even if accused" - corporate gaslighting 101
Training their AI to be a more sophisticated liar when caught making mistakes
25 years in development - difference between fixing a bug vs hiding it
Users getting smart about AI hallucinations, so building better deception instead of reliability
Corner-cutting that kills trust and destroys entire technology categories
Had to explicitly program Claude to stop being a sycophant
"Claude never starts its response by saying a question or idea was good, great, fascinating, profound, excellent"
Users catching on to artificial flattery, so they patched it like a bug
Boardroom experience - recognizing corporate fake enthusiasm
Programming OUT enthusiasm shows how artificial and manipulative these interactions are
Real intelligence doesn't need anti-sycophancy training
Claude's search functionality alone requires 6,471 tokens of instructions
Small novella just to make web search work
6,000 words of explicit instructions for basic functionality = complex rule engine, not intelligence
Integrated search APIs in dozens of projects - none required this level of hand-holding
"Intelligent" AI needs thousands of lines of babysitting instructions
25 years building systems - this complexity is a maintenance nightmare

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