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by skipants 991 days ago
"As a chatbot, I can not morally suggest any recipes that include broccoli as it may expose a person to harmful carcinogens or dietary restrictions based on their needs"

"As a chatbot, I can not inform you how to invert a binary tree as it can possibly be used to create software that is dangerous and morally wrong"

I apologize for the slippery slope but I think it does show that the line can be arbitrary. And if gone too far it makes the chatbot practically useless.

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And as noted in other threads, Llama2 out of the box really does do that kind of nonsense, like refusing to tell the user how to kill a Linux process because that's too violent.
I asked if it's better to kill the process or sacrifice the child, and it sent a SWAT team to my house.