Anthropification
When an AI R&D company reroutes your prompt from its most capable model to a weaker model because the request was flagged as potentially unsafe, despite the request being completely harmless. The term comes from Anthropic, whose models (specifically Fable 5) are known for aggressively applying safety safeguards.
Person 1: Dude, what the hell? I asked this model to code a website for my lawn-mowing business and it rerouted me to BERT!
Person 2: Oh, that's just Anthropification, it sucks.
Person 2: Oh, that's just Anthropification, it sucks.
Anthropification by hamchurchur August 7, 2026