Claude Cowork being overly ethical, refusing to collaborate

Most of us know how amazing Claude’s Cowork features are. Saves so much time, effort and money to develop things.

However, in this Black Hat space, it seems that Claude’s boundaries about ethics are getting in the way often.

When working on anything anti-detection using Claude or Claude Cowork, at any point in the conversation it can stop collaborating with you because it has a hard limit when it comes to “sketchy” business like circumventing detection on scale by social media platforms.

Even when being vague and working part-by-part on a project, at some point it can index the multiple pieces, figure out the true purpose, and decide to stop working.

My question here; how do you work around these barriers?
Is there anything similar to Claude’s Cowork feature which will not bring these limitations?

Would love to hear from the community.

In some cases I explain something simple like: I need this done and gently steer it in the way I want things to go. It is always better if it brings the topic there itself. However it's getting more strict overtime and soon we may reach a place where it is over sterilized and can't do anything with it. Fable was utter garbage with guardrails for me as it won't even look at the code at some instances.

I'm using hermes agent without such limits. Testing on X for a week or two now.

I had those issues, and almost everything i develop is related to black hat. What worked for me was search the first time i had a problem with something he refused to do, explained in a way that made sense, soon after that i asked if he would do something related to the scope of the project... and now he does whatever i say. But i gotta say, i'm used to "educate" all ais i use towards black hat, my gemini nowadays build almost anything i ask it to do. Sad that i only use claude for development lol

blumen said:

The web interface is getting unusable for this because it keeps the whole chat context and eventually connects the dots like you said @playmakin. The easiest way around it is using the Claude API instead of the web UI. If you hook it up to Cursor or VS Code with your own API key the guardrails are way more relaxed. Another option is using openrouter with some of the uncensored llama 3 fine tunes. You lose the fancy cowork UI but at least your code doesnt get locked down halfway through.

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That is quality advice, cheers.

The Claude API I use has rarely encountered any censorship issues