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  "title": "Anthropic's new model Fable will silently handicap work on LLMs [D]",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1u23f8p/anthropics_new_model_fable_will_silently_handicap/",
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  "published_at": "2026-06-10T14:14:39+00:00",
  "transcript": "Seems like they have engineered some specific limitations that are widely cited as follows:\n\n> In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restriction through our safeguards avoids accelerating the actors most willing to violate these terms.\n\n> Unlike our interventions for cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation attempts, these safeguards will not be visible to the user. Fable 5 will not fall back to a different model. Instead, the safeguards will limit effectiveness through methods such as prompt modification, steering vectors, or parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). These interventions will not affect the vast majority of coding work. We estimate they will impact ~0.03% of traffic, concentrated in fewer than 0.1% of organizations\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464732\n\nOther comments note how even using the word 'nuclear' in the context of scientific research elicits refusal behavior by the model:\nhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48473302\n\nThis makes it seem quite plausible that the model could subtly sabotage any machine learning work (even as false positive). Some suggest this has been happening behind the scenes for a while already, but can anyone confirm that?\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[185 upvotes] Anthropic is a company with fantastic products but really questionable leadership. They seem to think they \"know what's best\" for others, and they're often on their moral high horse while not being honest about their true motivations. I despise that kind of extremely paternalistic attitude and I hope it's going to be their (leadership's) downfall.\n\n[178 upvotes] Silent sabotage is by design. It can also manifest as intentional gaslighting.\n\nIf they can silently sabotage a particular topic like LLM R&D, they can do it for any topic they want. This is the AI 1984 nanny state manifested.\n\nThis is also why open weight models will be the future. If you cannot trust the nanny state API, open weights is the inevitable future. \n\n[80 upvotes] this company has the biggest ego I've ever seen\n\n[78 upvotes] Use open models and learn the foundations, thats the only way to prevent this unfortunately.. Although I do see such shenanigans be implemented for open models as well in the future.",
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