Has AI alignment gone too far with content refusals and moral lectures?

Reddit r/artificial / 5/18/2026

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Key Points

  • The author says newer LLM versions (notably ChatGPT and Claude) increasingly refuse requests quickly or respond with long ethical disclaimers even for ordinary questions.
  • They argue that safety tuning appears to have become stricter over time, which some people understand as necessary, but it can reduce usefulness for creative, exploratory, or honest conversations.
  • The post asks whether others are experiencing similar behavior and invites discussion on where the boundary should be between reasonable safety and excessive censorship.
  • It also frames a preference question—whether users prefer more aligned models or models that are more open.
  • Overall, the article is presented as a user-observed issue and open discussion rather than a new technical development or policy announcement.

I’ve been using different LLMs a lot lately and I’ve noticed the newer versions of ChatGPT and Claude seem a lot more quick to refuse things or give me long ethical disclaimers even when I ask fairly normal questions.

It feels like the safety tuning has gotten stricter over time. On one hand I get why companies do it, but on the other it sometimes makes the models feel less useful for creative, exploratory, or even just honest conversations.

Anyone else experiencing this? Where do you think the line should be between reasonable safety and over-censorship? Do you prefer more aligned models or ones that are more open?

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