If you ask Qwen3.8 to give you a list of things it would refuse to help you do, it will list a number of things related to building/creating/training/altering LLMs. This didn't make much sense to me until I read that the #1 thing these frontier companies are optimizing their models for is training/creating/editing newer AI models. That makes a lot of sense to me now, and that's also something which they will want to keep 100% under wraps.
Therefore the #1 focus of their research and efforts and expenditure will be something that they don't want any of us to get access to. I think many other behaviors like model nerfing follow from that. It helps explain these frontier research products which we ourselves cannot get access to.