I think it goes beyond this. I was just using claude to edit a blog post which mentioned OpenClaw and I got this response: "The "OpenClaw" reference — I assume that's a typo or playful reference; if you mean a real product, I couldn't find it under that spelling and you'll want to fix or footnote it.". I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit. Could have been a coincidence, but I had only lightly been using sonnet in the morning so it seems unlikely. Very odd.

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p0w3n3d 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Dragons steal gold and jewels... and they guard their plunder as long as they live... and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of the market value

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vscode-rest 2 hours ago | parent [-]

My theory is the dragons actually benefit immensely from sitting atop the gold piles as it acts as an amazing heat sink.

I don’t think that really fits with the metaphor but I wanted to say my piece regardless.

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bombcar an hour ago | parent [-]

We don’t really have dwarven gold hoards anymore - I’m thinking we can prove climate change is caused by overheating dragons.

Everyone send me all your gold and I’ll prove it.

	▲	dylan604 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Why do you think places like Fort Knox have never been robbed? They have the best security guard.

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tantalor 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It doesn't look like anything to me

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andruby 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

For those that don’t get this. It’s a reference to West World, where the “hosts” (androids) say this sentence when they see something from the outside world that they are programmed to ignore

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jrflo an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

The weird thing is that it found sources for all of my other claims and references no problem, but acted like it didn't know what openclaw was when openclaw.ai is the first thing that pops up on google.

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ACCount37 40 minutes ago | parent [-]

"OpenClaw" is a name from January 27, 2026. It's new enough that it's not in the training data for a lot of AI models. So they, quite literally, don't know what it refers to.

"If you don't know an identifier, google it" isn't a very reliable behavior in today's models. They do it, but only sometimes.

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jrflo 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

That's true, it could have been going from training data and skipping an explicit web search, but it was odd because I specifically asked it to pull references for my blog post, and it pulled ~20 links in the same message it said OpenClaw doesn't exist.

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tantalor 17 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

That's not how any of this works.

	▲	ACCount37 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's exactly how it works.

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lwarfield 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is some real "There is no claw in ba sing se" stuff.

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apexalpha an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Same past days it sometimes tried to gaslight me saying OpenClaw isn't a thing.

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MagicMoonlight 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lmao, I can 100% believe that they are deliberately filling your usage bar to sabotage their competition. These people have no morals.

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rob 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Sorry, that was a bug!" Thariq will be on scene shortly, don't worry.

	▲	nubg an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah it will be something like "we A/B tested on 0,05% of users and ..."

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iLoveOncall 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean that also just sounds illegal...

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vile_wretch an hour ago | parent | next [-]

It also sounds extremely counterproductive to try and sabotage your competition by.. driving your customers away? I have no love for these companies but it's a silly conclusion to jump to.

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LoganDark an hour ago | parent [-]

They don't want customers that make them bleed more money than they're supposed to.

	▲	andai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		People on OpenClaw discord were bragging about having this stuff running 24/7 and using billions of tokens. I think one guy was using billions per day. (I might have misplaced some zeros but I remember one guy's bill would have been $1000 with API pricing. Per day.) At the time, enforcement was pretty random, and I think based on how heavy your traffic was. They weren't all on Claude (though it was the preferred setup) and some people had dozens of accounts hooked up with proxies to avoid hitting limits.

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2ndorderthought an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Not if a chatbot did it, maybe. No legal precedence here. Also they are a defense and offense contractor they could kill people and nothing would happen

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GolfPopper an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Would they act differently if it was?

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kitsune1 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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