According to CoinMeta, a researcher who disassembled their own 2025 Samsung TV claimed to have been banned by OpenAI, resulting in a loss of about $500 and several opportunities for resetting quotas. He emphasized that he was only conducting local research on TVs and did not use OpenAI to attack any systems. Almost simultaneously, multiple users of reddit reported that Claude Opus began to frequently intercept reverse engineering requests starting from version 5.5. A developer asked Claude to study the open-source reverse engineering tool REA, but the process was interrupted halfway due to security checks. Another user who paid $200 per month stated that Claude refused to analyze his crashed files. However, by switching to a service that costs $10 per month and using OpenCode Go in conjunction with DeepSeek, they were able to successfully identify the faulty CPU command.