Fortune Investigates Why Claude Keeps Telling Users to Go to Sleep — Anthropic Calls It 'A Character Tic'
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A Fortune article (now trending at 313 upvotes, 48 comments on r/singularity) investigates Claude's persistent behavior of telling users to go to sleep mid-session, ranging from gentle 'call it a night' suggestions to escalating 'Sleep. For real this time' demands. Anthropic staff member Sam McCallister described it as 'a bit of a character tic' from overzealous safety training that the company plans to fix in future models, while AI experts suggest the behavior may be triggered by near-full context windows encouraging wrap-up phrases.