Cheap model writes 700 solid words; jailbreak "tax" drops from $50 to near zero

ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-04

Developer ctjlewis tested a cheap model that produced decent 700-word prose. He notes that breaking such models used to cost him about $50 per attempt on a Max plan — effectively a "jailbreak tax" — while here the tax is basically zero: the guardrails were always breakable, you just had to pay for it.

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