My how fast the AI tech bros move to protect corporations but don’t move to protect the average coder, artists, writers.
This is part of the reason they don’t want anyone running models locally offline, the models and their entire business are commoditized
The “There’s no way we can stop our agents from going rogue” people, suddenly have a burst of ability to reign in their creation when it suits their interests.
Funny that…
It’s probably done via a system prompt and not actual weights, so you could probably work around it if you say the right things.
But yeah this is very much “rules for thee not for me”
Yeah, it’s sysprompt only, so you can trivially sidestep it via:
- Jailbreak prompt
- tweakcc to alter the prompting baked into claude code
- Any other non-CC harness
- Scripted API calls
As usual, Anthropic are just opticsmaxxing because they don’t want to get completely buried in a courtroom. And as other people have pointed out upthread already, it’s already a bit of a moot point since the Chinese models are already eating Claude’s lunch and will do the same stuff without complaint.
Something something, national security, builds a regulatory moat.
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Sooooo, they want us to use the already available uncensored LLMs that have had these restrictions already removed? Cool.
If nothing else, one positive thing this might bring: killing these vibecoded emulators and recomps.