Come on, folks. This is not a conspiracy. LLMs have a knowledge cutoff date. Opu...

jeeeb · 2026-05-01T02:25:49 1777602349

Knowledge cutoff is completely insufficient as an explanation.

These models have access to a web search tool. Gemini and ChatGPT both happily search for give info on OpenClaw. Claude denies all knowledge.

What’s more it’s this part that’s very concerning.. Banned for wrong think..

> I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit.

swordsith · 2026-05-01T08:38:00 1777624680

Claude is notorious in my experience to lie directly to your face (even if its baffling) instead of using the web tool. I'll never prompt it without saying 'use web tool' Its ridiculous.

kentonv · 2026-05-01T13:59:40 1777643980

Claude does not use the web search tool unless it thinks there's a good reason to. If you nudge it to search, it will, and then it'll tell you all about OpenClaw. You can easily go try this yourself -- I just did. It works fine.

> I gave it a direct link to openclaw.ai and the chat instantly ended and hit my 5hr usage limit.

Again, go to claude.ai yourself and try it. It works fine. It happily tells you about OpenClaw.

Whatever happened to jrflo must have been a coincidence. It frankly doesn't make any sense for Anthropic to be trying to block this.

jeeeb · 2026-05-02T00:20:06 1777681206

My guess is that it was an abuse filter over-keyed on OpenClaw pushing Claude to certain responses patterns.

Normally given a web search tool these models will search if they don’t know.

NamlchakKhandro · 2026-05-01T05:24:20 1777613060

the model has no such magical access to tools.

it's the harness which responds to the models replies that has access to the tools.

I wish people would continue to reiterate this difference.

jeeeb · 2026-05-01T11:32:20 1777635140

I said the model has access to a web search tool. Of course it’s the harness that provides that access.

I didn’t spell that out because it’s irrelevant detail, immaterial to the point I was making.

ScoobleDoodle · 2026-05-01T02:01:43 1777600903

Except GP said they also pointed it to the source website to reference and then had the follow up weirdness.

kakacik · 2026-05-01T07:04:16 1777619056

Is the behavior the same with other unknown words? Certainly doesn't seem so from other comments.

jwilliams · 2026-05-01T05:14:07 1777612447

Fair call.

I don't think couching it as conspiracy is the right frame either. This is not a one-off. I think a critical eye is warranted.