If you don’t believe that you can be harmed verbally, then I understand your position. You might be able to empathise if the scenario was an LLM being used to control physical robotic systems that you are standing next to.

Some people can be harmed verbally, I’d argue everyone if the entity conversing with you knows you well, and so i don’t think the concept of safety itself is an infantilisation.

It seems what we have here is a debate over the efficacy of having access to disable safeguards that you deem infantilising and that get in the way of an objective, versus the burden of always having to train a model to avoid being abusive for example, or checking if someone is standing next to the sledgehammer they’re about to swing at 200rpm