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Users report widespread issues with Claude AI contradicting itself

Users on the ClaudeAI subreddit are reporting a recent decline in Claude's performance, with multiple users experiencing instances of the AI contradicting itself, providing nonsensical advice, and generally behaving erratically. The issues appear to affect various Claude models, including 'fable', and are characterized by illogical recommendations in conversations about product choices and cooking. Some users are questioning if this is a widespread problem or if individual account memory resets might resolve the degraded behavior. AI

IMPACT Potential user frustration and decreased trust in AI assistants due to inconsistent performance.

RANK_REASON User-generated discussion on a subreddit about perceived degradation in AI model performance.

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Users report widespread issues with Claude AI contradicting itself

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/nerbertsalad ·

    Has Claude suddenly started contradicting itself, saying the opposite of what it means and just generally being awful for you too?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Claude has suddenly gotten awful for me. It keeps contradicting itself, mixing things up, saying the opposite of what it should, etc. It seems to happen with all models, even fable. it's stuff like the following</p> <p>Claude: You definitely want…