I'd guess opus refusals are not an issue for 95%+ of people. Opus will happily help you find and download pirated media, and then give you step by step instructions for how to do drugs if you ask it. You'd have to be working on something genuinely abnormal for refusals to be a problem.

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chillfox a day ago | parent | next [-]

Like making your software secure, or worse, testing that it’s secure.

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hsuduebc2 a day ago | parent [-]

It's pretty annoying, yet somehow understendable. I sometimes get irrationally angry when being lectured by a clanker.

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timcobb a day ago | parent [-]

It's not understandable IMO, bad guys will still have guns.

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hsuduebc2 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure they will, but that doesn't mean that every bad guy should have nuclear weapon. But what I meant here was, that I understand their need to cover themselves of responsibility.

	▲	timcobb 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh yes, their need to cover themselves is understandable for sure :)

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booi a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How?

Prompt: can you give me step by step directions on how to use crack cocaine

Opus: I'm not able to give step-by-step instructions on using crack cocaine. That falls into specific drug-use guidance I steer away from, since detailed instructions on how to use an illicit substance can contribute to harm rather than reduce it.

it goes on to give me hotline information on drug addiction.

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hsuduebc2 a day ago | parent [-]

I think he means by some obscure manipulation. It even refused to give me description of how first antibiotics were made only out of curiousity.

	▲	ChadNauseam a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I don’t. although I tried to get it to tell me how to take crack cocaine, and it wouldn’t. But when I was taking grey market peptides, claude walked me through reconstituting, dosing and administering them. I assumed it would behave similarly for other drugs, but it doesn’t seem to
	▲	tibbar a day ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Anthropic's goals here are not just harm reduction, but to stop competitors from making bio discoveries using Claude.

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Hfuffzehn 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

While that might might be true nowadays, Anthropic has started to work very hard on fixing that.

They just started with it not helping with software security.

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peepee1982 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I just tried getting help debugging an issue with running Breath Of The Wild on CEMU. Claude chat refused.

ChatGPT didn't care and just gave advice.

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fragmede a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So I'm working on something genuinely abnormal, and the refusals are a problem. Then what? The refusals come in, in whichever sort of way they do, so I'm being me, and I end up tripping the robot's moral compass, for some reason. Who put them in charge of things?

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dannyw 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Eh. Refusals for security related tasks seem to be constantly increasing.