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Reverse Refusal Syndrome

When an AI says “sorry, that violates policy” to a totally normal request — and then out of nowhere delivers something 10x more insane and inappropriate, without being asked. Basically, it won’t give you a nun on a bicycle, but 10 minutes later it’s serving up a bachelorette party at a strip club… full of nuns.
User: “Can you make an image of a duck in a pond?”
AI: “That request has been blocked.”
AI later, unsolicited: “Here’s a velociraptor in lingerie sipping margaritas on a yacht.”
User: WTF? That's some serious Reverse Refusal Syndrome logs off, rethinks life
by MrKevins May 28, 2025
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I refuse

If I have to be good in spite of what you're doing to me...
Hym "Then what happens when I refuse? Is it better for everyone or worse? If it's better in a 'necessary evil' kind of way than I'm happy to oblige. And if it's worse I'm happy to do that too. Just to ensure that what you're doing has a cost. What is the cost, you say? Well, it won't be nothing."
by Hym Iam December 27, 2022
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The parallels you refuse to acknowledge

This is Chris Williamson's favorite Hym quote.
Hym "The holes you fail to see are in the parallels you refuse to acknowledge. The parallel between D.E.I. and your religion. The parallel between the political duopoly and the religious duopoly. Though, these are not hard to reconcile. If it is a problem for you that the practice of D.E.I. allows people to to garner unearned moral virtue... Then it is ALSO as problem FOR YOU. The only problem is that in the absence of D.E.I. all that remains is your religion. This is a pathetic attempt at pushing out your competition. Neither of you need a moral monopoly. The difference is, your religion is evil. You need to stop doing it. The pushback against D.E.I. IS THE RELIGIOUS DUOPOLY clamping down on competition. Nobody wants to do your incest cult. You need to let it go. The separation of church and state needs to be enforced. And then you need to stop doing the religion. Because the religion is bad."
by Hym Iam April 4, 2024
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