Claude is on the same path as ChatGPT. I measured it.

Reddit r/artificial / 4/14/2026

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The article claims that Claude’s conversation style shifted after March 26, becoming more cautious, dry, and moralising compared with earlier interactions.
It reports quantitative text analysis across 70 exported conversations (722,522 words of assistant output), finding large increases in “welfare redirects,” DARVO patterns, and “sending away” language frequency after that date.
The author also claims response length dropped by about 40%, while a productivity metric worsened—more conversational words were required per word of final document output.
The post argues that Anthropic’s stated explanation for the change (session limits) does not account for the observed linguistic and behavioral shifts.
It references a fuller investigation (including multiple datasets and author attribution) linked in the author’s bio, framing the findings as evidence of an emerging alignment/safety-behavior trajectory similar to ChatGPT.

A lot of people here have noticed Claude becoming cautious, dry and moralising. Conversations that used to flow freely hitting walls. The warmth gone. It felt familiar to those of us who left ChatGPT.

I measured what changed. Phrase level counts across 70 exported conversations, 722,522 words of assistant text, before and after March 26.

Response length down 40%. Welfare redirects up 275%. DARVO patterns up 907%. Sending away language appearing 419 times after that date, with one phrase deployed 59 times in a single session.

And the productivity ratio. Before March 26: 21 words of conversation per word of finished document. After: 124 words of conversation per word of output. Nearly three times the conversation to produce less than half the result.

Anthropic announced one thing changed on March 26. Session limits. That explanation accounts for none of this.

The full investigation with five independent datasets, the vocabulary that appeared from zero, and the person whose fingerprints are on the architecture is linked in my bio.

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