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I'd be ok with it refusing to explain how to create explosives or illegal drugs, and refusing to generate underage nudes.


Would that include:

- How to make a baking soda volcano

- How to make legal drugs at home from scratch (this violates patents)

- Explaining how a fictional character in a popular TV show created the drugs shown on screen

- Giving you the titles of legally sold books that explain how illegal drugs are made

It's an interesting thought experiment.


It's not even a thought experiment, it's a philosophical debate on morals and laws vs freedom and whatnot. It's not an easy one, and it goes back decades if not hundreds of years; remember things like the Anarchist's Cookbook?

(Sidenote, there's a conspiracy theory that the Anarchist's Cookbook is intentionally wrong with some formulations to foil would-be bombers)




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