Anthropic uses Claude self-assessment to flag potential misuse for review
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Anthropic says it has used Claude’s self-assessment since June to flag potential misuse in conversations and that the technique has surfaced misuse. After responding, Claude produces a preliminary safety assessment of the conversation. Flags support subsequent review rather than immediate blocking, and an individual flag does not directly trigger an account suspension. According to Baoyu’s explanation of the system, Anthropic says self-assessment adds less than 2% to inference compute, carries no additional customer charge and collects no additional user data. Traffic covered by zero data retention agreements is currently excluded. In sampled Fable 5 traffic, Anthropic says the system detected 78% of conversations flagged by a separate evaluator, at a 1% false-positive rate.
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