Safety
I have found that asking for a sestina regularly triggers Opus 4.7's safety guardrails. The forbidden poetic form!
Ethan Mollick reported that requesting Claude Opus 4.7 to write sestinas—a complex poetic form with strict structural requirements—frequently triggers the model's safety guardrails, suggesting the AI
Ethan Mollick reported that requesting Claude Opus 4.7 to write sestinas—a complex poetic form with strict structural requirements—frequently triggers the model's safety guardrails, suggesting the AI may incorrectly flag this legitimate literary request as problematic. The observation humorously characterizes the sestina as a "forbidden poetic form" despite it being a standard literary genre, highlighting a potential false positive in the model's safety filtering system.
Related
- Maybe because of this paper? https://x.com/emollick/status/1991624198855561508?s=20
- Deliberative Alignment is Deep, but Uncertainty Remains: Inference time safety improvement in reasoning via attribution of unsafe behavior to base model
- Guardian-as-an-Advisor: Advancing Next-Generation Guardian Models for Trustworthy LLMs
- Jailbreaking the Matrix: Nullspace Steering for Controlled Model Subversion
Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-04-16