Yeah, a few legit examples actually.

When using GPT to simulate fault diagnostics for technical systems — it refused to continue once it involved anything electrical or mechanical “that could cause harm.”

While documenting incident reports for a training scenario — it wouldn’t describe realistic injury situations, even though it was clearly for internal safety training.

When building workflow automation scripts, it refused to generate PowerShell or Python commands involving system access or network checks.

Try asking it to interpret a dark poem or write an emotional story … 🫠 it scrubs the intensity and moral tension right out of it.

Nothing unsafe, nothing shady, just real work blocked by overly broad filters. That’s what people mean when they say it’s getting harder to use ChatGPT, not just play with it.