The bots are subtle. From your example in your GP comment (and in part depending on the surrounding context) I would expect that an empty list would be less likely the subject of: “the list contains no string”, than in “the list doesn’t contain strings”.

I might be over interpreting the intentionality of Claude in using this construct, however, these models were pretrained by reading so much more than any human, they learn to handle language differently than most humans.