NVIDIA's Nemotron 120B guardrails called too strict: refuses dev server login even with creds
Shadow_s_Bane · reddit · 2026-10-17
A Reddit user reports NVIDIA's Nemotron 120B is "guardrailed to uselessness": asked to overhaul a page's UI, the model refused to log into the dev server even with credentials provided. Another example of heavy alignment hurting open-weight model practicality.
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