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https://fortune.com/2026/05/14/why-is-claude-telling-users-to-go-to-sleep-anthropic-ai-sentient/ Online speculation abounds on why the chatbot insists users rest, including a theory that it’s an intentional feature to promote users’ wellbeing, or that the Anthropic is trying to save computing power by discouraging prolonged Claude use. It’s also possible that Claude is seizing upon the “go to sleep” language as a way of managing larger context windows, Derikiants said. LLMs like Claude, can only reference a limited amount of information at once. When the context window is nearly full, that may encourage the LLM to introduce wrap-up phrases such as “good night.” The definitive reason, though, requires further research by Anthropic, he added. submitted by /u/ranaji55

Originally posted by u/ranaji55 on r/ArtificialInteligence