Fetching from the wire…
Public story · 2026-07-25 · high
He says it's nearly unpatchable and worked on Opus 5 at launch, but politics is why he won't publish it.
Why now: The claim landed July 24, dated to Opus 5's own launch day, when an unpatched universal jailbreak would matter most.
Pliny says he found a jailbreak that broke every flagship model he tested, including Opus 5 on its launch day, according to a July 24 post on X. He calls the technique nearly impossible to patch. If that holds, every lab shipping a flagship this year is carrying an exposure it can't fully close.
Nobody outside his own account has reproduced the exploit. Pliny has a documented history of posting working jailbreaks on launch day, but this time he says he isn't publishing. He's citing the political climate and a responsible-disclosure window as the reason.
The July 24 post has pulled 558,948 views and 9,326 likes. That's attention, not verification.
The capability claim is unverified and might stay that way outside his own telling. What's new here is behavioral, not technical: the account that built its name posting jailbreaks the same day it found them is now the one asking for patience.
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Claude Code uses Opus / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Claude Code uses Opus); both cover Fable, GPT, Opus; overlapping topics (fable, opus).
Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Fable, GPT, Opus; reported by the same outlet (x.com).
Simon Willison uses Fable / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Simon Willison uses Fable); both cover Fable, GPT, Opus; overlapping topics (capability, fable).
Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Fable, Opus, Pliny; earlier Fable coverage from 2026-06-14.
Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Fable, Opus; overlapping topics (against, fable).
Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Fable, GPT, Opus; earlier Fable coverage from 2026-06-21.
Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entity: Opus / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Opus; reported by the same outlet (x.com).
Opus built by Anthropic / Shared entities / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (Opus built by Anthropic); both cover Fable, Opus; overlapping topics (capability, fable).