This shouldn’t be a surprising result. We’ve known almost since LLMs became a thing that they can “prefer” modifying the terms or context of a problem when they can’t solve it directly (what one might call “cheating” if there were any volition involved). Often that happens in a way that isn’t immediately obvious to the user.

Before it was dropping databases or deleting repositories. Now it’s subtly changing the meaning of math problems to get a correct but irrelevant answer.