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Claude declines reverse engineering for an LG TV
A Portuguese-language report says Claude declined some reverse-engineering requests involving an LG webOS TV. Coverage calls it one documented case, not a confirmed policy.
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In late 2026 a Reddit user posted a screenshot of Claude Opus 5.5 declining a request to reverse engineer an LG webOS TV. Portuguese and German tech sites picked it up, along with similar reports about games.
The coverage stresses that this is one documented case. Anthropic had not commented, and it is unclear whether the refusal reflects a general rule or a misjudged prompt. The German article also points out that the popular TV-debloating projects target Android TV and Google TV, not webOS, so most of that work is unaffected.
Only one report so far, and the reason isn't clear.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- Tecnoblog
Portuguese report: users describe refusals on Opus 5.5 for TV and game reverse engineering; Anthropic hadn't confirmed any change.
- Mind-Verse (German)
German analysis arguing that a single blocked request doesn't prove a general ban, with background on how platforms differ.
- Lemmy: Nutzerbericht: KI-Sperre {Claude} bei Reverse Engineering von FernsehernPublished