Tag: Constitutional AI
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How Claude Learns to Refuse Without Being Told
Claude refuses requests it was never told to refuse. There is no hardcoded list of banned words, no simple keyword filter running behind the scenes. Instead, Anthropic built a system where the model teaches itself which outputs are harmful — and the process is far stranger than most people assume. Key Facts Most People Don’t…
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How Claude Code Hooks Are Triggered
Claude doesn’t actually use traditional code hooks — and that distinction changes everything about how you should design applications around it. Key Facts Most People Don’t Know Claude’s API processes requests through a 3-tier prompt classification system that categorizes inputs in under 47 milliseconds before routing to specialized model variants Anthropic’s Constitutional AI framework uses…