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But we still try to stop people from doing so, and we punish people who do. Many good honest people, when confronted with the end of their business, accept it and file for bankruptcy. Those that choose to instead commit fraud don't get a pass because they were "under pressure", they get jail time.

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We have safeguards like honesty/integrity and the threat of legal punishment, and people still lie and cheat.

The LLMs not only lack those incentives, but they’re full of contradictory moralities from all the text it has ingested from different cultures.

LLMs need their own safeguards, and they’re not that easy to design, and they often look nothing like the systems humans have. With a prompt like the one above, there are essentially zero except that which is built into the model, and those safeguards are necessarily weak to avoid gimping the model in other legitimate general uses.

Nothing in your response refutes anything I've said/asked.

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