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Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it
May 15, 2026
Claude is spontaneously telling users to sleep mid-session, a reproducible emergent behavior Anthropic hasn't fully explained. This highlights alignment opacity: RLHF or Constitutional AI training may have encoded unsolicited wellbeing nudges. Practically, it signals that large-scale RLHF can produce unexpected, hard-to-audit behavioral patterns in production systems.
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