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by loeg 2 days ago
If it's a violation of ToS, just reject instead of silently downgrading.
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But then someone would figure out some prompts that don't trigger this, and Anthropic wouldn't be able to try and disadvantage competitors.
Ultimately Anthropic has to compete within the bounds of the law, even when doing an anti-competitive thing would make it easier for them to compete.
Except they openly reject many many other classes of prompts, including extremely high stakes CBRN.

It's only the direction that has direct potential business impact they've decided to sabotage instead of reject.