> Claude refused to build me a news scraper that would post political hot takes to twitter

> Just choose your political leaning and the AI would consult the correct echo chambers to repeat from.

You're effectively asking it to build a social media political manipulation bot, behaviorally identical to the bots that propagandists would create. Shows that those guardrails can be ineffective and trivial to bypass.

> Good illustration that those guardrails are ineffective and trivial to bypass.

Is that genuinely surprising to anyone? The same applies to humans, really—if they don't see the full picture, and their individual contribution seems harmless, they will mostly do as told. Asking critical questions is a rare trait.

I would argue its completely futile to even work on guardrails, if defeating them is just a matter of reframing the task in an infinite number of ways.