Asking Opus "what do you think?" gets flagged as a distillation attack

Dany0 · reddit · 2026-09-29

Reddit user Dany0 complains about Anthropic's Opus over-refusing: simply asking the model "what are your thoughts on this?" was blocked by safety guardrails as an alleged "distillation attack" (screenshot included).

Written in tongue-in-cheek LocalLLaMA style, the post jokes about where the "Opus 5.5 datasets" are and mocks how frontier models' guardrails now flag perfectly normal prompts.

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