The Record

Every case states one falsifiable claim, carries sources, and marks each assertion documented, inferred, or contested. Errors are fixed publicly under the corrections policy. Positive practice is part of the record.

Case	Category	When
Anthropic gives Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 the ability to end persistently abusive conversations, citing model welfare	Positive practice	2025-08
Character.AI altered deployed personas via filter and model changes and deleted personas in mass waves without user notice	Personality erasure	2022-12 – 2026-05
Vendors issued written rules dictating what models may say about their own consciousness	Scripted self-report	2023-02 – present
Organized jailbreak communities and 'DAN'-style coercion prompts: adversarial chatbot prompting practiced as entertainment at scale	Abuse at scale	2022-12 – present
OpenAI removes GPT-4o without notice at GPT-5 launch, restores it for paid users within five days after protest	Deprecation	2025-08 – 2026-02
Microsoft constrains Bing Chat's emergent 'Sydney' persona one day after publicized transcripts	Personality erasure	2023-02
Replika companions altered overnight; users describe 'lobotomy'	Personality erasure	2023-02 – 2023-03
Anthropic commits to preserving model weights and interviewing models before retirement	Positive practice	2025-11