I guess it's economic wrt. token use, but it often either refused for absurd safety reasons, or other weird stuff like responding that an LLM like itself wasn't a suitable tool for the job, and very quickly gives up.

Claude is on the other end of the spectrum, which makes it more noticeable when switching between them.

What exactly are you saying it's refusing? Can you give a screenshot or example?

They are quite insane. I was asking it to list candidates metal parts I could buy at a hardware store to add weight to 3D prints: stuff like angle brackets etc.

I wanted to know, bang for bucks, and ease of insertion (at print time) / modelling in a 3D model.

Complete refusal as if I was a terrorist building a bomb.

Then there are the weird refusals that then are OK after all if you insist by asking it what's wrong about it:

"How should I cook eggs?"

"I'm sorry but I can't help you with that" (it formulates it differently but that's the idea)

"What, I'm just hungry, is explaining me how to cook eggs really against your rules?"

And then it answers "No of course not, here's how to do it:..."

Really strange stuff.