[stevefan1999]

> If the guardrails can be bypassed at, say 50x token cost (due to the agent also pursuing things you don't care about), then it's still pretty effective as a safeguard

Economic factors doesn't matter to powerful entities such as rival corporations, enterprises, and state power. It only matters to small players who have limited budgets. But I have to also pessimistically assume that Anthropic would go this way, because 1. it does not prevents (you can NEVER prevent) but discourages using it for exploitation, and 2. Anthropic can on the other hand, exploit those small and legit entities by making you pay more, but in exchange effectively enshittifying it. But Anthropic could care two shits about the benefits of us normal, small person. Anthropic have all the motives to do this.

[dpoloncsak]

If you're looking to commit cybercrime I doubt you'd draw the line at token cost. Just find CC dumps on TOR or something