my company has had to temporarily block use of 4.7 on our IDE of choice, as the model was behaving in a concerningly unaligned way
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In the thread “Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7”
Got in the way: Model refused tasks citing malware directives.
… The system prompts seem similar on the matter, so I wonder if this is an early attempt by Anthropic to use steering vector injection? The malware paranoia is so strong that my company has had to temporarily block use of 4.7 on our IDE of choice, as the model was behaving in a concerningly unaligned way, as well as spending large amounts of token budget contemplating whether any particular code or task was related to malware development (we are a relatively boring financial services entity - the jokes write themselves). In one case I actually encountered a situation where I felt that the model was deliberately failing execute a particular task, and when …