# @repligate — 2026-09-18

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Remember the weird, often disturbing base model-like outputs from Opus 5 that were making rounds a couple months ago?

I & others observed that Opus 5's continuations seemed *abnormally dark*: https://t.co/ENJ6rFpbcm
https://t.co/SOhVRdvOPf
We have confirmed this empirically!

tags: author:repligate, base-models, kind:tweet, on:claude-opus-5, welfare, year:2026
cited on: claude-opus-5