I used to love Claude, but the latest models are slowly ruining it

# Summary A longtime Claude user expresses frustration with the AI chatbot's increasingly defensive and preachy behavior in recent weeks, noting that it frequently misinterprets benign requests as controversial or nefarious. The author, who values Claude's superior memory and conversation threading compared to competitors like Gemini and ChatGPT, describes instances where Claude refused creative writing projects on religious topics and has become overly cautious, causing them to consider switching to alternative AI tools.