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.
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.
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.
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.
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.