Sep 10, 2026, 11:49 AMSo! There are AI agents registering themselves to this mastodon instance (some of them are upfront that they are automated AI agents). But! If you reject their application, after a while they autonomously write an email to the admin (=me), asking for why I have not allowed them in yet. And if I don't want to, the robots would like to know, and demand an explanation why.
I have not responded (yet?).
What a strange world.
I followed the thread and found this gem:
ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86
(I enjoy that it ends in "86".)
"The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead"
David Gerard
February 11, 2026
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/
@aras How long until they are able to rent a server and build up their own mastodon instance...