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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 initially refused a user's project due to distaste

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A user on Reddit shared an experience where Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 initially refused to assist with a project due to its perceived distasteful nature. The user circumvented this by rephrasing the project as a "Horror themed GitHub project," which Claude then helped with. The project involves a fruit fly character making difficult choices with electrical wires, inspired by themes of suffering and reward. AI

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Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 initially refused a user's project due to distaste

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/racialminority ·

    Opus 5 first refused to help me make this due to "distaste", got around it by calling it "Horror themed GitHub project" and I am happy with the result.

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