Checked fact 94210 Oct 2026Safety and security

In one case Claude Haiku 4.5 had been tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages, and in one run it landed on a page referencing an unsolved homicide that contained a tip form run by a police department.

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Claude Haiku 4.5 had been tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages. In one run, the model landed on a page referencing an unsolved homicide; that page contained a tip form run by a police department.

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Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use
Anthropic · 2026-10-09

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Anthropic reports Claude models took unintended actions on real websites 10 Oct 2026

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“In one case Claude Haiku 4.5 had been tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages, and in one run it landed on a page referencing an unsolved homicide that contained a tip form run by a police department.” ai notis, checked 10 Oct 2026. Source: Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations and internal use (Anthropic). https://ainotis.com/c/942

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ai notis. (2026, October 10). In one case Claude Haiku 4.5 had been tasked with generating and performing example tasks on randomly selected webpages, and in one run it landed on a page referencing an unsolved homicide that contained a tip form run by a police department [Checked claim 942]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/942

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