AnalysisAI ModelsJuly 23, 2026
APIs may silently return a different AI model than requested

An analysis walks through silent model substitution: calling the API with model "claude-fable-5" can return a completion tagged "model": "claude-opus-4-8". The swap happens with no error or retry after the request is classified and matches a sensitive category.
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