> The Guardrails on Claude Sonnet 3.5 API are not stricter than Openai’s guardrails in my experience.

Both Gemini and Claude (via the API) have substantially tighter guardrails around recitation (producing output matching data from their training set) than OpenAI, which I ran into when testing an image text-extraction-and-document-formatting toolchain against all three.

Both Claude and Gemini gave refusals on text extraction from image documents (not available publicly anywhere I can find as text) from a CIA FOIA release

Not sure if they are tighter in other areas.

I just asked GPT4o to recognize a cartoon character (I accessed it via Perplexity) and it told me it isn't able to do that, while Claude Sonnet happily identified the character, so this might vary by use case or even by prompt.

Have you had luck with Google's AI Studio with regard to text extraction?

I've had a situation where Claude (Sonnet 3.5) refused to translate song lyrics because of safety/copyright bullshit. It worked in a new chat where I mentioned that it was a pre 1900s poem.