Safety monitors block chat about author's own article on Opus 5.5, sparking infohazard debate
scaling01 · x · 2026-09-23
Blogger scaling01 reports that Claude Opus 5.5's safety monitors automatically triggered and blocked the conversation when he tried to discuss his own article with the model, joking that he apparently "wrote an infohazard." The case highlights how frontier-model safety guardrails can misfire on innocuous everyday use, fueling debate about overblocking and the boundaries of infohazard classifications.
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