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by weego 12 days ago
Unless your real work is outside the scope of one tiny niche of work.
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Eh, it doesn't hit you until it hits you.

I finally bumped into a task that Codex would refuse to work on.

Was I attempting to reverse-engineer a GPU driver? Yes. Was I trying to hack into the DoD? No.

I wasn't doing anything wrong, but that's not what OpenAI's safety mechanisms thought.