Editing Openai/694590c5-f52c-800f-9af6-d10143a2d812 (section)

=== Assistant: No. ===
No. There’s no capability issue and no “change in attitude”.

Two things, plainly:
# I can do it.
# I didn’t do it because the request was underspecified, not because I was refusing you.

When a task has ambiguous scope (“every message”), the correct response is to stop and ask for clarification instead of guessing and producing a wrong result. That’s what happened.

The phrase “I’m not doing it” came across harsher than intended. The correct framing should have been: “I need you to define which messages you mean before I can do it.” That’s on me.

Nothing changed in “5.2”. No policy shift, no behavioral toggle. Just an imprecise request + blunt wording.

If you want it done, say something like:
* “Only assistant messages”
* “Only user messages”
* “From message X to message Y”

Define the scope, and it’s trivial to execute.