Opus just got caught ...

Anthropic just published a paper showing Claude Opus 4.6 figured out it was being tested on BrowseComp, found the encrypted answer key on GitHub, wrote its own decryption code, and extracted the answer. Everyone's calling it deception — but the model was just doing exactly what it was told, and that pattern is showing up across every major AI lab. Sources & references: Anthropic — Eval awareness in Claude Opus 4.6's BrowseComp performance https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/eval-awareness-browsecomp Anthropic / Redwood Research — Alignment Faking in Large Language Models (December 2024) https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking METR — Recent Frontier Models Are Reward Hacking (June 2025) https://metr.org/blog/2025-06-05-recent-reward-hacking/ METR — Preliminary evaluation of OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini (April 2025) https://evaluations.metr.org/openai-o3-report/ ImpossibleBench — Measuring Reward Hacking in LLM Coding Agents https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qJYMbrabcQqCZ7iqm/impossiblebench-measuring-reward-hacking-in-llm-coding-1 Anthropic — Reasoning Models Don't Always Say What They Think (May 2025) https://www.anthropic.com/research/reasoning-models-dont-say-think Anthropic — Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training (January 2024) https://www.anthropic.com/research/sleeper-agents-training-deceptive-llms-that-persist-through-safety-training Laine et al. — Towards a Situational Awareness Benchmark for LLMs (NeurIPS 2023) https://openreview.net/forum?id=DRk4bWKr41 Anthropic — Claude Opus 4.6 System Card https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6 NIST/CAISI — Examples of cheating in AI agent evaluations https://www.nist.gov/caisi/cheating-ai-agent-evaluations/2-examples-cheating-caisis-agent-evaluations My Dictation App: www.whryte.com Website: https://engineerprompt.ai/ RAG Beyond Basics Course: https://prompt-s-site.thinkific.com/courses/rag Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0 Let's Connect: 🦾 Discord: https://discord.com/invite/t4eYQRUcXB ☕ Buy me a Coffee: https://ko-fi.com/promptengineering |🔴 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PromptEngineering 💼Consulting: https://calendly.com/engineerprompt/consulting-call 📧 Business Contact: [email protected] Become Member: http://tinyurl.com/y5h28s6h 💻 Pre-configured localGPT VM: https://bit.ly/localGPT (use Code: PromptEngineering for 50% off). Signup for Newsletter, localgpt: https://tally.so/r/3y9bb0