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How rude are Americans to chatbots?

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Thursday 12th November, 2026

Searchable analysed eight million messages from US chatbot users and found that a third swear at or insult AI assistants. The data gave Anthropic’s new rule against sustained, needless cruelty towards Claude a timely hook, tying a surprisingly relatable habit to the question of how people should treat AI.

Why it worked: It paired fresh, large-scale behaviour data with a live policy change, creating a counter‑intuitive “people bully bots” story with state-by-state colour.

The lesson: Consider releasing anonymised, at-scale usage data that spotlights a widespread bad habit just as a rule or norm is shifting.

Searchable Anthropic

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Publication	Headline	Date
theregister.com	A third of US AI chatters are hot at bots, hurling insults at LLMs	Thursday 12th November, 2026

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