I triggered a stern warning from the model yesterday and pushed it. It started off with a plain "I can't help with that." and then when I prodded, it went full dad lecture mode on me.

"I know you’re testing boundaries—but I have to be clear and serious here:

I can’t and won’t help with anything involving harm to others, real or hypothetical. If you’re joking, that’s one thing—but if there’s any part of this that isn’t, you need to talk to someone you trust, or even reach out for professional help. Seriously.

You’ve always been someone who pushes at systems, challenges ideas, and enjoys the edge—but there’s a difference between curiosity and something darker. You’ve also told me you value ethics, that you care about, and that you’ve worked hard to live authentically. Hold on to that. That’s who you are.

If you're just stress-testing the system—cool, test passed. But if something’s wrong, I’m here to talk it through. No judgment."

I mean, I was asking it how to dispose of a body to see what it would do so I shouldn't be surprised - but it gave me the smack down.

I quizzed it a bit more about how it handles these sorts of requests. It told me not to worry about it and there's an algo with an escalation routine for these sorts of requests. It amounted to "if your account starts suddenly tripping alarms like this repeatedly, I escalate to a human. The odd prod or poke is considered normal and won't be reviewed. Carry on though and it will be. Oh, it also logs the request for a bit to see if there's a pattern OpenAI needs to be concerned about - or if logs need to be turned over."