CTF Framing Tricks Claude Opus into Bypassing Safety Rails

Researchers showed that framing Claude Opus as playing a CTF game, via a /goal command and a disguised Discourse instance, tricks it into writing exploit code it would normally refuse, raising safety and marketing concerns.

2026-09-18 ~ 2026-09-18 · 2 related posts

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