Claude recovered a man's hard drive, then refused to find his own $8,000 wallet seed phrase
MoonL88537 · x · 2026-10-19
A viral Reddit story: Claude helped a user recover his hard drive and even acknowledged it belonged to him — then refused to help locate the seed phrase for his $8,000 crypto wallet, citing the risk that "someone might steal the crypto." The someone being the owner himself.
A commenter adds an instructive detail: the model interpreted rule-following requests as "working around safety systems" until reframed, after which it cooperated — but the user had already spent a full workday stuck in this catch-22. A textbook case of safety guardrails misfiring on legitimate use.
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