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This sounds like something straight out of The Onion.
The Pink Elephant problem of LLMs. You can not reliably make them NOT do something.
Just say 12 times next time
That is also the premise of one of the stories in Asimov's I, Robot. Human operator did not say the command with enough emphasis, so the robot went did something incredibly stupid.
Those stories did not age well... Or now I guess they did?
It's because these people don't have a clue how AI actually works. They think it's like a human intelligence and that writing something in all caps is in some way going to give it more emphasis. They're trying to reason with something that has zero self-awareness.
Even after he used "ALL CAPS"?!? Impossible!