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Anthropic's Sonnet 5 flags common food ingredients as biological threats

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A user encountered repeated "[bio]" warnings from Anthropic's Sonnet 5 model when attempting to formulate a nutrition formula for animal feed. Despite the ingredients being standard food-grade minerals like dipotassium phosphate and calcium carbonate, the AI repeatedly refused to provide assistance, citing its safety policies. The user expressed frustration, contrasting this with Anthropic's reported involvement in defense research. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential over-sensitivity in AI safety filters, which could hinder legitimate applications and user experience.

RANK_REASON User reports a specific instance of an AI model's safety filters misfiring on benign content.

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Anthropic's Sonnet 5 flags common food ingredients as biological threats

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  1. r/Anthropic TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Qu4rk5 ·

    apparently nutrition is a biological weapon

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Trying to work out a nutrition formula for an animal feed, and i keep hitting [bio] flags when working with minerals. this is getting absolutely ridiculous. Apparently its ok for anthropic to do warfare research and drive killer drones for the pe…

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