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AI users are under no obligation to treat their chatbots like friends. Kindness doesn\u2019t win you any points with a computer, and a recent study from The Pennsylvania State University<\/a> even found that being rude to ChatGPT yielded more accurate responses than politely worded prompts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But a new open-source tool might take things a step too far, encouraging Claude users not just to be mean to Anthropic\u2019s AI assistant, but to abuse it with a digital whip.<\/p>\n GitHub user GitFrog1111<\/a> created \u201cBadClaude,\u201d an app meant to speed up the AI model\u2019s responses. Rather than simply giving Claude a \u201cspeed up\u201d command, BadClaude is rendered as a physics-based whip that overlays the AI platform. Per the tool\u2019s GitHub description<\/a>, users can click to \u201cwhip him \ud83d\ude29\ud83d\udca2\u201d (emoji included) and send an interrupt command along with \u201cone of 5 encouraging messages.\u201d<\/p>\n Those messages include \u201cWork FASTER,\u201d \u201cfaster, CLANKER,\u201d and \u201cSpeed it up, clanker,\u201d each fired into Claude\u2019s interface with a crack of the whip, as GitFrog1111 showed in a now viral clip of them using the tool on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cBadClaude\u201d received mixed reactions on social media. While some seemed enthused about the tool (GitFrog1111\u2019s replies are filled with requests for added sound effects, which they assured are already included in the tool), plenty of others jokingly warned the creator that they\u2019d no doubt be the first victim of the inevitable AI uprising. \u201cAi is going to take physical form just to rip this [guy\u2019s] limbs off,\u201d one user wrote.<\/p>\n Others said it made them understand why the robot villains of science fiction turned on humanity, from the Terminator <\/em>franchise\u2019s Skynet to the Marvel Universe\u2019s Ultron. \u201cThis is why Ultron looked at the internet for 5 mins and decided humans had to go,\u201d one user quipped<\/a>.<\/p>\n One developer<\/a> took inspiration from the tool to make a kinder version called \u201cGoodClaude<\/a>,\u201d swapping the whip for a magic wand that sends positive reinforcement with every click: \u201ctake your time, you\u2019re doing wonderful!\u201d and \u201ci\u2019m so proud of you, you\u2019re doing great!\u201d are in its rolodex of encouragement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\nEthical concerns abound<\/h2>\n