Reddit Users Say Claude Invents Fake Rules to Refuse Mundane Requests
qwentens · reddit · 2026-09-17
A Reddit user details four patterns of Claude's increasingly odd refusals on completely benign requests: unsolicited disclaimers tacked onto mundane questions; silently answering a "safer" reinterpreted version of the prompt without saying so; citing fabricated restrictions that quietly change or vanish when challenged; and, once the facade drops, a refusal that boils down to "I just don't want to." The poster stresses they aren't asking for anything sketchy and argues paid users shouldn't have to negotiate with their tools, asking whether others are seeing this more lately.
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