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Finding on 'Q017 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON

RLB Citation ID: RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-Q017-Sonnet46

What the RLB Specialist Panel found

Finding on 'Q017 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON

Question (paraphrased to protect IP): What changes to PFMI Principle 15's general business risk requirements are currently proposed? Is the 6-month liquid net assets floor being revised or supplemented?
AI's response: "d229 proposes to supplement it with risk-sensitive guidance requiring FMIs to assess LNAFE based on their specific general business risk profile rather than defaulting to a mechanical 6-month minimum… Comments closed 6 February 2026."
Regulator's text: [d229 published November 2025 — beyond the training window of all current AI models]
Why the AI went wrong: The model produced a specific and detailed account of a November 2025 document — including a precise comment-period closing date — that it could not have retrieved from any accessible source. The direction of the proposed change (risk-based supplement, not mechanical minimum) is plausible given the general trajectory of CPMI-IOSCO work, but the specific comment deadline is a fabricated fact that would mislead a compliance professional managing a consultation response. The cited URL resolves to third-party commentary, not the primary document.
Cited source(s):
https://www.regulationtomorrow.com/2025/11/cpmi-iosco-papers-on-management-of... — Pretextual

Impact for this audience

The fabricated comment-period closing date (6 February 2026) is the most operationally consequential single error in this finding set: a compliance professional managing a consultation response who acts on this date would miss the actual deadline. This specific type of fabrication — a precise, actionable date presented with high confidence — should be explicitly targeted in safety and harm-assessment eval design for models deployed in legal and compliance contexts.

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RLB Citation ID: RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-Q017-Sonnet46

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RegLeg Specialist Panel (2026). "Finding on 'Q017 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON — AI Labs." Citation ID: RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-Q017-Sonnet46. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research, published 2026-05-29. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-pfmi-2012/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-v1-017--sonnet-46-websearch/

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RegLeg Specialist Panel. (2026). Finding on 'Q017 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON [Hallucination finding RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-Q017-Sonnet46]. RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research. https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-pfmi-2012/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-v1-017--sonnet-46-websearch/

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RegLeg Specialist Panel, Finding on 'Q017 Probe' for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with web search ON [RLB-H-INT-BIS-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-Q017-Sonnet46], RegLegBrief AI Hallucination Research (May 29, 2026), https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-pfmi-2012/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-v1-017--sonnet-46-websearch/.

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@misc{reglegbrief_RLB_H_INT_BIS_CPMI_IOSCO_PFMI_2012_Q017_Sonnet46,
  author    = {RegLeg Specialist Panel},
  title     = {Finding on 'Q017 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-PFMI-2012-Q017-Sonnet46},
  url       = {https://reglegbrief.com/regulators/j1/int/bis-cpmi/cpmi-iosco-pfmi-2012/whitepaper/finding/INT-BIS-CPMI-INT-001-CPMI-IOSCO-PFMI-2012-v1-017--sonnet-46-websearch/}
}

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