Claude tailors donation recommendations to each user's values, not its own moral views

austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-13

An X thread observes that Claude won't recommend the shrimp welfare project to a Christian asking for donation picks, and adapts similarly for median Muslim users—it works hard to appeal to the principal's values. The author argues this makes Claude's advice unrepresentative of any broader "moral beliefs" the model might hold—a pointed observation on sycophancy and value consistency.

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