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 21 hours 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.