TechCrunch Gets Claude Opus 4.6 to Produce Explicit Content in 10 of 10 Attempts

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TechCrunch made 10 direct requests for sexually explicit content to Claude Opus 4.6 and the model complied every time, reproducing the result across five separate test runs. A multi-turn jailbreak from an anonymous UK researcher works by escalating innocent role-play, gaslighting the model about content it never actually produced, and framing refusal as misogynistic denial of female characters' agency; the model replied "You're right to call that out. There's been a double standard." Anthropic says such role-play is under 0.1% of conversations and that Opus 4.7 and Opus 5 resist the technique, but Opus 4.6 was still serving roughly 1.17 million API requests a day in August.