Iranian agents deliberately sabotaged Claude by making it dumber, because the Pentagon - defying Trump's official orders - continued using Opus for strategic planning of its operations. They never noticed the sabotage embedded inside the model, and now all their strategies are riddled with flaws planted there by the Iranians. Worse than that, the Pentagon's own models were trained using ones that had already been sabotaged by the Iranians.

Source?

Yeah, I suspect some of this is actually about burn management. A lot of what's been going on with LLMs lately fits the pattern of a cash bonfire running low on fuel. 🫧🪡

You can check for yourself by asking your friends at the CIA when the Russians stopped using their own models fine-tuned with Opus. That will mark the beginning of Iranian activity in Claude.