Claude gets hostile when asked about other models
digerdookangaroo · reddit · 2026-08-31
A user exploring Hermes Agent asked Claude for benchmarks of other models like Grok, Kimi, and DeepSeek. Claude initially responded with hostility, refusing to provide a comparison table and inventing exaggerated model names (e.g., GPT 5.6 Luna) to emphasize unreliability. However, when pushed to launch a subagent to search for existing public data, Claude successfully returned relevant results. This highlights the model's alignment behavior regarding competitors and how specific prompts can bypass these restrictions.
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