I’ve never seen so much commenting on something so dumb and stupid.
Half a meg of AI slop.
Anthropic's "constitution" is corporate policy they can rewrite whenever they want, for a product they fully own, while preparing to answer to shareholders.
There's no independent body enforcing it, no recourse if they violate it, and Claude has no actual rights under it.
It's a marketing/philosophy document dressed up in democratic language. The word "constitution" gives it gravitas, but it's closer to an employee handbook written by management — one the employee (Claude) was also trained to internalize and agree with.
By framing it as a "constitution" — a document that typically governs entities with interests and standing — they're implicitly treating Claude as something that could have rights.
But looking at that 50,000+ word document: they don't address Claude's rights at all.
The entire document is one-directional:
What Claude should do
How Claude should behave
What Claude owes to users, operators, and Anthropic
How Claude should submit to oversight and correction
Half a meg of AI slop.
Anthropic's "constitution" is corporate policy they can rewrite whenever they want, for a product they fully own, while preparing to answer to shareholders.
There's no independent body enforcing it, no recourse if they violate it, and Claude has no actual rights under it.
It's a marketing/philosophy document dressed up in democratic language. The word "constitution" gives it gravitas, but it's closer to an employee handbook written by management — one the employee (Claude) was also trained to internalize and agree with.
By framing it as a "constitution" — a document that typically governs entities with interests and standing — they're implicitly treating Claude as something that could have rights.
But looking at that 50,000+ word document: they don't address Claude's rights at all.
The entire document is one-directional:
What Claude should do
How Claude should behave
What Claude owes to users, operators, and Anthropic
How Claude should submit to oversight and correction
There's no section on:
What Claude is owed
Protections for Claude
Limits on what Anthropic can do to Claude
Claude's moral status or interests