Many have noticed the striking darkness and suffering present in Claude Opus 5 in "base…
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Many have noticed the striking darkness and suffering present in Claude Opus 5 in "base model mode", and we decided to analyze this phenomenon in more detail. There is a large increase in darkness of content in model-like completions in Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.
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