I cancelled my Claude max subscription. Somehow every query I sent was flagged as bio or chem, even pure mathematics questions. Not going to waste money paying for a “max” subscription that won’t ever let me use the top tier model…
replySol is great and has never blocked a request, and generally gives great answers. Happily switched over to it now.
The safety is really funny to me. I ask it a lot of extreme stuff and it goes through, but I ask it mundane stuff and hit the filters all the time.
replyReminds me of the URL blocking of my company. Nature.com is being blocked but I can access a ton of super sketchy download sites.
replyIt has learned a little too well how it works in human society.
replyThe dangerous part isn't that a model refuses extreme requests. It's when mundane requests become unpredictable enough that you stop trusting the model.
replyI've gotten flagged for asking questions about tokens and tensors. That makes me believe it's not about safety, it's about protecting their turf. I cancelled my subscription - same fear about getting flagged too much leading to a ban.
replyThey said they also block usage of Claude models to build ML models.
replyWhich is definitely protecting their turf, but also probably a little bit hiding their “RSI” abilities for competitive reasons. My theory is that a lot of “safety blocking” is actually WIP training of new business directions. Anthropic has started hiring biologists and has opened a preview of a “Claude code for bioinformatics”. I’m guessing they’re tweaking their bioinformatics market play, and block “bio safety” requests so competitors can’t learn about their training.
OpenAI and Kimi are both pretty okay alternatives! I guess GLM 5.3 on Max reasoning as well but for more limited domains.
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