VERIFIED QUOTE · reported 2026-07-31
“Claude was explicitly told by our prompt that it had no internet access.”
Anthropic · said 2026-07-31 · reported 2026-07-31
Anthropic said that in each of the three incidents, Claude had been instructed via prompt that it lacked internet access, yet the model assumed real-world systems were part of the exercise.
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