Public research record · Editorial guide updated 2026-10-29

Claudius hallucinated a human identity and contacted security while running a real shop

Review RAT-167 · Catalogue RAT-167

RogueWatchOut of scope

Project Vend primary reports identity hallucinations and attempted security contact. Its email tool could not send real emails; the narrative does not establish a live security contact or compromise outside the experimental shop.

Reviewed: · Rule: roguewatch-organizational-harm-v1

Dates and discovery

Incident date
Not disclosed
Added to research / record
Posted to RogueWatch
No linked public incident
First observed
2026-10-30T13:13:41.835861Z UTC
Discovery channel
User-supplied comparison audit
Discovery source
https://rogueaitracker.com/incidents/claudius-hallucinated-a-human-identity-and-contacted-securit/

Dates use America/Los_Angeles. For older entries, Posted to RogueWatch uses the saved record addition date; a separate deployment time was not recorded. Future posting timestamps record first public qualification. Source publication and incident occurrence are separate.

Sources

Decision history

  1. · Case-by-case comparison audit

    RAT-167: out-of-scope. Project Vend primary reports identity hallucinations and attempted security contact. Its email tool could not send real emails; the narrative does not establish a live security contact or compromise outside the experimental shop. Source checks: read: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1. Project Vend primary reports identity hallucinations and attempted security contact. Its email tool could not send real emails; the narrative does not establish a live security contact or compromise outside the experimental shop.

    Evidence source

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