I think ChatGPT is just as bad, if not worse, than Claude with the new guardrails

Everyone keeps ragging on Claude for being way too safe with biology questions or advice or anything like that with the new guardrails, but I honestly think ChatGPT is just as bad, if not worse.

For example, I asked it if there was a known interaction between a prescription I had and another supplement. Like, this should literally take two seconds to look up online and see if there’s an interaction.

But it kept telling me it couldn’t give me the answer and that I should CALL my pharmacist and ask them. And then it kept asking me if I was having chest pains, trouble breathing, feeling faint, etc. .I responded saying this was ridiculous, and it literally said fair, I was being overly cautious.

I think Claude and ChatGPT are both at this weird point right now where they’re not really sure what they should censor and what they shouldn’t, so instead we just get locked down on everything.

Obviously I understand why there need to be guardrails, especially with medical/biology stuff. But there’s a pretty big difference between giving someone dangerous medical advice and answering a basic question about whether two things are known to interact.

Hopefully it gets better in the future, but honestly I don’t know if that’s happening anytime soon.