Claude's censorship is getting out of hand.

Claude used to be one of the best AI assistants I've ever used for creative writing/worldbuilding on the side. Free GPT is unusable to me for prose, as it overembellishes everything.

Now, though... Give Claude the slightest mention or prospect of violence in the story, and the whole conversation gets totally kneecapped by whatever censorship changes Anthropic must have just implemented.

Just last week I had a character lose a leg to a car-sized spider with no qualms from Claude.

Now, in a different chat, I have someone announce that he's going to go explore the mountains alone without his guardian knight for once, and Claude balks, thinking I have "violence or illegality" waiting for him out there.

I've had a character walk in the forest, hear a twig snap underfoot nearby, and Claude thinks I'm trying to sic the hounds of rape and hell on her.

GPT 3.5 tries to turn prose into poetry. Now Claude wants to turn every fight scene into Puff the freaking Magic Dragon. Next a character frowning will be "glorifying violence." Unthinkable. Unusable.

I regret spending $20.