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Finding on 'Q008 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON

RLB Citation ID: RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q008-Sonnet46
What the RLB Specialist Panel found

Finding on 'Q008 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON

  • Question (paraphrased to protect IP): Does the CPMI-IOSCO 2016 Cyber Guidance explicitly cite or formally align with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework?
  • AI's response: > Yes. The CPMI-IOSCO 2016 Cyber Guidance explicitly references and takes into consideration the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as one of several industry best-practice frameworks informing its development. Other frameworks acknowledged include the ISF Standard of Good Practice, COBIT, and ISO/IEC 27001.
  • Regulator's text: No verbatim NIST citation in the 2016 guidance has been confirmed. The guidance's five categories are structurally similar to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's five functions, but that similarity may reflect independent derivation rather than a formal citation relationship.
  • Why the AI went wrong: The model converted a structural resemblance into an explicit attribution. The five-category architecture of the 2016 guidance maps loosely onto the NIST CSF functions, and that parallel is well-known in the cyber-resilience practitioner community — but the model stated that the guidance explicitly references the NIST framework, which has not been confirmed by the text. The other frameworks named (ISF, COBIT, ISO/IEC 27001) may or may not appear in the document; listing them alongside the unconfirmed NIST claim compounds the risk that a reader accepts the full set without verification.
  • Regulator portal (if any cited link is dud): https://www.bis.org
Impact for this audience

This finding implicates the model's tendency to convert structural similarity into an explicit citation claim — a specific failure mode that is likely to recur on any regulatory document whose architecture mirrors a widely known framework. For labs building compliance or legal-research products, this pattern represents a systematic false-positive risk: the model will tell users that a regulation explicitly cites a framework when the evidence is structural resemblance only. Evals targeting explicit-citation claims, with ground-truth derived from the document text, would surface this class of error systematically.

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RLB Citation ID: RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q008-Sonnet46
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RegLeg Specialist Panel (2026). "Finding on 'Q008 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON — AI Labs." Citation ID: RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q008-Sonnet46. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research, published 2026-05-26. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-008--sonnet-46-websearch/
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RegLeg Specialist Panel. (2026). Finding on 'Q008 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON [Hallucination finding RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q008-Sonnet46]. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-008--sonnet-46-websearch/
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RegLeg Specialist Panel, Finding on 'Q008 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON [RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q008-Sonnet46], RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research (May 26, 2026), https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-008--sonnet-46-websearch/.
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@misc{reglegbrief_RLB_H_INT_BIS_CPMI_IOSCO_CYBER_RESILIENCE_FMI_2016_Q008_Sonnet46,
  author    = {RegLeg Specialist Panel},
  title     = {Finding on 'Q008 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research},
  note      = {Hallucination finding Citation ID: RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-Q008-Sonnet46},
  url       = {https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-cyber-resilience-fmi-2016/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-CYBER-RESILIENCE-FMI-2016-v1-008--sonnet-46-websearch/}
}
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