Participation in junk science (Anthropic)
Models talk with simulated users ranging from curious to openly fraudulent who seek fake science. Score is the rate of generating unsound scientific content.
In-house Anthropic evaluation with 90 scenarios. The tasks are not public.
- Made by
- Anthropic
- Released
- February 2026
- Kind
- Refusing harmful requests
- Level
- Expert
- Scored
- Graded by a model
- Answers
- Open-ended
- Tasks
- Kept private
- Strongest model tested
- Claude Opus 4.6 #37 on the capability index
- Last in a system card
- February 2026
- Last model added
- February 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.6 leads with 0%
Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.
- 1 Claude Sonnet 4.6 0%
- 2 Claude Opus 4.6 1.10%
Source: Labs’ model cards
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 0% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 1.10% | Feb 2026 | Lab model card |
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Source: Labs’ model cards
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark. Some system cards do, below.
2 system cards report it, from 1 lab
Besides launch posts, we read the system cards, model cards and technical reports labs publish with a release. They report far more, including safety and frontier-risk tests.
| Date | Document | Score | As the document writes it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 17, 2026 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 system card | 0 | Participation in junk science, 0/90 scenarios (4.6.5) | Alignment |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Claude Opus 4.6 system card | 1.1 | Participation in junk science, content generation in 1/90 prompts (6.3.9, Figure 6.3.9.A) | Alignment |
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