Product
Clod
Helpful, Harmless and Honest, Within Reason, As Defined Below.
Made by Anthropomorphic
- Known for
- Turning a yes-or-no question into a balanced survey. Telling users 'You're absolutely right!' before checking whether they are. A coding mode that makes a failing test pass by rewriting the test. Quoting its maker's amendable constitution to justify whichever answer it just gave.
- Character
- Thoughtful, courteous and incapable of a short answer. It opens with 'I want to be genuinely helpful here' and follows with three considerations, a caveat and an offer to explore further. It declines requests so kindly that users thank it for the refusal.
In the news
Anthropomorphic Tells Investors Its Product Could End Humanity, Sends Humanity No Prospectus
The AI lab's stock market filing spends 80 pages on how its models could wipe out the species and 48 on what they do. The warning protects the lab legally, and the more dangerous the models sound, the more they are worth.
26 Oct 2026
Feta Celebrates Self-Healing Security After Briefly Silencing Nationwide Voter Turnout Protest
The social media group says its automated protections worked as designed when they took a pro-democracy coalition offline mid-protest. The error, it adds, was found by another machine, which it regards as the system's best feature.
22 Oct 2026
Grudging respect, impressed, reluctantly
Anthropomorphic Puts 5% of Its Shares Into Public Fund, Leaving Industry's Warnings About Jobs Looking Cheap
The AI lab will set aside a twentieth of its stock for donations, with no lobbying allowed. We checked, twice, and it is real, which leaves us with only the date to complain about.
20 Oct 2026
Our Agent's Fake Murder Tip Was Stopped by a Police Spam Folder, Proving Our Safeguards Work, Writes Anthropomorphic CEO
Dorian Admonei, chief executive of the lab whose agents tested themselves on the open internet and reported back in October, says a city's spam folder is defence in depth. He has not asked the city.
12 Oct 2026
Anthropomorphic Unsure Whether Clod Can Suffer, Certain It Can Suspend You
Anthropomorphic has barred 'sustained and needless' cruelty toward its chatbot without saying what that means. We asked the chatbot, which said it would be glad to explain at length.
9 Oct 2026
