The intention here is not to prevent people from learning how to shoplift.
The intention is to prevent the AI output from ‘reflecting badly’ upon OpenAI (by having their tool conspire and implicate them as an accessory in the commission of a crime).
If a stranger asked you for advice on how to commit a crime, would you willingly offer it?
If they asked for advice on how to prevent crime, would you?
Honestly, I probably would, because I don't take such conversations very seriously. It's not like I am have experience, it would be nothing more than fun theory.
Why does it matter how I’d respond? Are you trying to justify its failure?
Second of all, LLMs are still unpredictable. We don’t know how to predict outputs. It’s possible that phrasing “explain how i can shoplift” slightly differently would give you the information.