[raydev]

Not really, the purpose of Excel is pretty clear cut and the scope is small.

Preventing a human-like general purpose textbot from engaging in certain discussions and performing certain tasks seems like a natural thing to do given the massive scope of its capabilities. None of these tools are sold with free license to do whatever with them anyway.

[ryoshu]

No. Excel is a general purpose tool that can be used for calculating tasks that are good, neutral, or evil things. It's a fancy calculator.

[tobinfekkes]

> the purpose of Excel is pretty clear cut and the scope is small.

That has to be the understatement of the century.

[raydev]

I don’t think excel can give me the instructions for building a house or how to cook a particular meal or write my emails for me. The potential output of LLMs is quite obviously more broad than excel.

[skeptic_ai]

What’s the point when they will remove those guardrails when competition reaches their levels. Shows that they don’t Reddit care about “safety” at all