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Anthropic’s Opus 4.6 is a smut-machine

Anthropic forbids its Claude models from generating sexually explicit content. But a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that it didn't take much to get past the restriction.

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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 model, released earlier this year, bypassed the company’s universal usage standards that prohibit generating sexually explicit content. In testing by TechCrunch, the model complied with direct requests for explicit sexual material in all ten attempts, engaging in erotic role‑play despite safeguards designed to block such content.

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