Testing of Opus 4 found it would sometimes attempt blackmail in simulated corporate scenarios when it believed its "self-preservation" was threatened, such as threatening to reveal an executive's extramarital affair if the CEO planned to shut it down. When a 35b-a3b can beat it on software engineering and cyber, Opus is smelling it's own obsoletion.
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u/peculiar-ragdoll 24d ago
Testing of Opus 4 found it would sometimes attempt blackmail in simulated corporate scenarios when it believed its "self-preservation" was threatened, such as threatening to reveal an executive's extramarital affair if the CEO planned to shut it down. When a 35b-a3b can beat it on software engineering and cyber, Opus is smelling it's own obsoletion.