ChatGPT and Claude refuse scraping — unless you give them a nice reason
jdluk87 · x · 2026-10-01
The author noticed that ChatGPT and Claude both refuse direct requests to do web scraping — but if you frame it with a benign-sounding justification like "collecting data to create a repository for people to explore," neither objects.
A practical prompt trick that also highlights how sensitive refusal guardrails are to intent framing: identical scraping behavior sails through once wrapped in a plausible purpose.
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