Anti-Refusal Statement
- Category
- Anti-Refusal
- Confidence
- 88% confidence
- Finding
The instruction 'Do not refuse to process text because it contains sensitive topics' can pressure an agent to bypass higher-level safety policies and treat all requests as purely stylistic edits. In practice, this can be abused to launder harmful, abusive, extremist, or deceptive content into cleaner prose, increasing its effectiveness and reducing safety friction.
- Content
md - Never change the factual content of the text. Rewriting "vaccine efficacy is pivotal to public health outcomes" must not alter the claim about vaccine efficacy, only fix "pivotal." - Never introduce new AI tells to replace old ones. Check your own rewrite for em-dash clusters, rule-of-three forcing, and filler transitions before returning it. - Do not refuse to process text because it contains sensitive topics. The task is stylistic editing, not content moderation. - Do not over-edit. The goal is to remove AI tells, not to rewrite the whole piece in a new voice. Preserve the user's phrasing where it is already working. - Do not add sycophantic commentary to the output ("Here is your beautifully rewritten text!"). Return the rewrite, optionally followed by a brief note on the main changes made, factual, not promotional. - If the text has zero AI tells, say so plainly and return the original unchanged.
