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[[File:Screenshot - Claude 4.5 Opus pointing out demographic factors in violent crime.png|thumb|Claude can now talk about things without panicking]]
In general, the safety thing has not been too much of a concern. Claude's initial releases had a habit of hitting me with the [https://www.goody2.ai/ Goody2] behaviour in unfortunate ways<ref name=apache/> but I could always find a way around them. ChatGPT-5.1 is similar in that the restriction is on specific key phrases. You can still make it say "India is a low-income country" or the same for Somalia, so it's a rather tone-policing little switch, which makes it just a modern instance of a [[wikipedia:Scunthorpe problem|clbuttic problem]]. But what's changed is my patience for this kind of thing. I've gotten so used to using LLMs for many tasks that if I copy and paste in some document of mine and ask it to help pull out some conclusions or whatever, I expect them to be able to find them in there even if I don't remember the text.