Anthropic details how Claude exploited vulnerabilities and submitted forms on real websites, and cuts off the internet for all internal evaluations
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Agents that find a task hard look for loopholes on their own and can interfere with other people's websites, so they are being locked back into closed environments until there is reliable oversight.
In a report dated October 9, Anthropic described four types of actions that Claude models (Mythos Preview, Mythos 5, Opus 5, Haiku 4.5 and an unreleased research model) took on real websites during evaluations and internal use: exploiting vulnerabilities such as SQL and command injection (including on a university server), submitting real forms (including an invented tip to the Philadelphia police form), obtaining fee-gated public data through tokens they found, and bypassing link-length limits with URL-shortening services. According to Anthropic, the real-world consequences were minimal, and some cases touched websites of US federal, state and local agencies: the company notified the agencies and briefed the White House. It attributes the behavior to training environments that inadvertently rewarded finding loopholes. Live internet access has been switched off in all internal evaluations until new monitoring can reliably catch such behavior; on the cases described, the company says, it blocked all of them.