Comment by mirashii
15 hours ago
They really didn’t though. They put it in a client side modification to the system prompt. You can just rip it out with a proxy or a small local modification to your client, which Claude will be happy to do for you. They took a token step so that people would write these headlines in the hope it would stave off more negative attention in the video game world without actually doing anything meaningful.
IIRC Claude has some kind of mechanism where even though the system prompt is sent from the client, if it’s modified it can trip tamper checks and result in a ban.
Sounds like an illegal DMCA circumvention device. Handcuffs! (IANAL)
Can you ask Claude to help with the modification of the local client?
You’re literally describing how they did set up a block, while also saying they didn’t
If they tried to stop terrorists from making biological weapons in the same manner, the headlines would call that useless and ineffective because you're trying to stop already bad actors with something ineffective and trivially bypassed. This is no different, and shouldn't be treated any differently.
They're literally describing how it's not actually a block just a minor inconvenience
A block would be a bit harder to circumvent