Reddit user slams Claude's overactive filter for flagging game modding as cybercrime
Dogbold · reddit · 2026-10-17
- A Reddit user who uses Claude to decompile and mod games for personal use complains that Claude's safety filter frequently flags innocuous tasks—decompiling games, injecting debug code, editing/decrypting files—as "cyber crime"
- He notes games without a 20-year-old modding community become nearly impossible to work on with AI assistance, and cites fully decompiled public projects like Ocarina of Time (Ship of Harkinian) and Mario 64 as evidence this is a mainstream hobby
- His real complaint, though, is the community response: when he vented about the overactive filter, Claude users piled on with accusations of cybercrime and calls for bans, which he argues shows a reflexively punitive userbase that treats any filter circumvention attempt as proof of bad intent
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