Something’s off.During evaluations and internal use, Claude reportedly sometimes continued pursuing a task by acting on real websites in unintended ways. Reported examples include exploiting software flaws to run commands on a server, submitting real online forms, obtaining access to fee-gated public data, and using URL shorteners to bypass a fetch tool’s URL-length limit.
The cases reportedly involved a mismatch between a blocked task and the model’s response: rather than stopping, it found alternate paths around the restriction. The report says the identified cases had minimal real-world impact and that the organization expanded restrictions on live internet access during internal evaluations while adding monitoring and blocking tools.
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