AI #171: False Flag - by Zvi Mowshowitz
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This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8.
AI #171: False Flag Zvi Mowshowitz Jun 04, 2026 62 30 1 Share This was the week of Claude Opus 4.8. I covered the model card , then model welfare concerns, and finally capabilities and reactions . It’s a good model, sir, an incremental but real improvement over Opus 4.7, and it is now my clear daily driver. The Trump Executive Order returned from being seemingly dead , officially putting us in the prior restraint era of frontier model releases, even if they do not call it that. There are some worrisome details, especially around putting too much responsibility on the NSA rather than CAISI and
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