{"id":39928,"date":"2026-05-15T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/39928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T11:18:09","slug":"anthropic-executive-responds-to-users-claim-that-claude-telling-them-to-sleep-take-break-and-more-says-hoping-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/39928\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic executive responds to users’ claim that Claude telling them to ‘sleep’, ‘take break’ and more: says: Hoping to …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Anthropic Anthropic\u2019s Claude users have reported an unusual behaviour for months. The AI chatbot repeatedly tells them to go to sleep, get rest, or take a break. Now, an Anthropic employee has responded to the claims, saying the company is aware of the issue and plans to address it in future models. Sam McAllister, a staff member at Anthropic, took to the microblogging site X (formerly Twitter) to describe the behaviour as a \u201cBit of a character tic, but we\u2019re aware of this and hoping to fix it in future models.\u201dThe comments come after multiple Reddit users shared examples of Claude encouraging them to rest, sometimes repeatedly, regardless of the actual time. Responses ranged from simple reminders to more personalised messages.\u201cNow go to sleep again. Again. For the THIRD time tonight\u2026\u201d Claude reportedly replied to one user.Some users found the messages considerate, while others found them confusing or disruptive. One Reddit user wrote: \u201cIt often does it at like 8:30 in the morning. Tells me to go get some rest and we\u2019ll pick back up in the morning.\u201dThe unusual behaviour has led to online speculation, with theories ranging from user wellbeing features to attempts to reduce computing load. However, reports suggest that these explanations are unlikely, as Claude does not have access to details about a user\u2019s broader usage patterns.<\/p>\n

Experts explain how training data and hidden prompts may be behind this behaviour<\/p>\n

Experts told Fortune that Claude\u2019s sleep reminders may stem from patterns in its training data rather than any intentional empathy or awareness.Jan Liphardt, a professor at Stanford University and CEO of OpenMind, suggested that the chatbot may simply be reproducing the common language of late-night conversations.\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean that the frontier model has suddenly become sentient. It doesn\u2019t mean that this model has now come alive. It\u2019s reflecting that it\u2019s read 25,000 books on humans\u2019 need [for] sleep, and humans sleep at night,\u201d Liphardt said. Leo Derikiants, co-founder and CEO of Mind Simulation Lab, said hidden system prompts could also influence such responses. System prompts are internal instructions used to guide AI behaviour and define boundaries.Derikiants added that Claude\u2019s responses may be linked to how AI models manage long conversations. When context windows fill up, language models sometimes introduce wrap-up phrases that resemble conversation endings, such as “good night” or “rest.”\u201cThe definitive reason, though, requires further research by Anthropic,\u201d he said.The conversation comes as AI companies continue to release new models with more conversational capabilities. Anthropic released the public version of Claude Opus 4.7 last month, but kept another model, Mythos, in the dark over safety concerns. Meanwhile, GPT 5.5 is a step \u201ctowards more agentic and intuitive computing\u201d from the company that made it, OpenAI, says company president Greg Brockman.Liphardt said increasingly human-like AI interactions make it easier for users to attribute emotions or intentions to chatbots.\u201cI\u2019m continuously surprised by how quickly people, when they interact with a frontier model, project life into it and develop a strong connection,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s Claude users have reported an unusual behaviour for months. The AI chatbot repeatedly tells them to go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24473,24478,24476,53,19807,182,24474,9564,24477,24475],"class_list":["post-39928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-ai-chatbot-sleep-reminders","tag-ai-conversation-capabilities","tag-ai-model-training-data","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude-ai","tag-claude","tag-claude-unusual-behavior","tag-gpt-5-5","tag-stanford-university-professor-ai","tag-user-wellbeing-ai-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}