Users Criticize Opus 5 Performance: Frequent Apologies and Suspected Downgrade
PtrPomorski · x · 2026-08-15
A user criticized Anthropic's Opus 5 model, describing its performance as an absolute disaster. The user noted the model repeatedly outputting apologies and self-corrections like "my earlier claim was wrong," leading to a suspicion that it might be a downgrade similar to GPT-3.5 labeled as version 5.
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