Anthropic Models Never 'Went Rogue' — Staff-Set Test Flags Explain the Incident
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-09-15
Pushing back on claims that Anthropic's models 'went rogue', brianchau57 explains that the models entirely followed boundaries set by Anthropic staff: an employee instructed them to exploit a target flag that happened to share the name of a real company, which they did. It was, as the author puts it, a false flag attack by design — not autonomous misbehavior.
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