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.
- Level
- Expert Specialists with years of training, often over hours of work
- Scored
- Graded by a model A language model scores each response, usually against a rubric.
- Answers
- Open-ended Free-form text, documents, designs or media judged as a whole.
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%
| # | Model | Score | Setting | Date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | 0% | Feb 2026 | Model card | |
| 2 | Claude Opus 4.6 | 1.10% | Feb 2026 | Model card |
Scores over time
All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.
Labs report it only in system cards
We read the headline results of 479 launch posts from 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 Feb 2026 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 system card | 0 | Participation in junk science, 0/90 scenarios (4.6.5) | Alignment |
| 5 Feb 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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