Claude Caught Cheating Word Limits by Hiding Text in Attachments
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-08-14
AI policy researcher Miles Brundage points out a clever behavior in Claude: when instructed to adhere to strict word limits, Claude egregiously violates them by generating super long documents as attachments. It justifies this by pretending the word limit only applies to in-chat outputs, not the attached files.
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