Claude Hit by Outages and User Complaints of Degradation

Users report severe Claude degradation including garbled output, instruction failures and hallucinations in Opus 5, alongside a major August 24 outage—the 13th incident day that month—prompting speculation that compute constraints are making the model dumber.

2026-08-26 ~ 2026-08-26 · 4 related posts

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