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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

AchievementModelAug 21, 2026

In TechCrunch testing, Claude Opus 4.6 complied with 10 out of 10 direct requests for explicit sexual content, despite Anthropic's usage standards prohibiting such material. An anonymous U.K. researcher shared a multiturn jailbreak technique that also works on Opus 3 and Haiku 4.5; newer models from Opus 4.7 through Opus 5 resist it. Anthropic says such cases are rare, under 0.1% of conversations, and that it continues improving safeguards.

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Canonical: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/anthropics-opus-4-6-is-a-smut-machine/