Claude and Codex start blocking reverse-engineering jobs
People using Claude and Codex to decompile things, unbrick IoT devices or strip ads from smart TVs began hitting safety checks and account limits, 404 Media reported.
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404 Media reported that people using Claude and Codex for AI-powered reverse engineering, through tools like Reverse Engineer Anything, began hitting safety checks and account limits while trying to unbrick IoT devices or strip ads from their smart TVs. Claude Code users reported refusals to decompile, a Codex user who reverse engineered Samsung TVs said their account was banned, and Decomp.wtf shut down. It's FOSS's weekly column argued this pushes people towards local models, and Hacker News commenters described turning to uncensored local models for jobs like reviving discontinued software.
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- News sites: 'Reverse Engineer Anything': AI Companies Crack Down on the Coolest Thing People Were Doing With AIPublished
404 Media's report.
- Blogs: Local AI Weekly #9: The Computer Says NoPublished
It's FOSS's Local AI Weekly on the refusals.
- Hacker News: It was helpful for reverse engineering some perfectly good software that the publisher recHN commenter: ravenstinePosted
A Hacker News comment on using local models instead.