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mpeg | on: Claude Fable 5
It's not even very usable... I tried 2 different chats and both eventually got stopped due to the safeguards

One was a piece of code I gave it to improve, it did so and then started writing tests, some of which tested security so the safeguards triggered

Another was one of the cryptography puzzles I use as new model tests, which are hard to oneshot and there's no public solution anywhere, it completely refused to even try to solve it

gavinray | parent | next
I tried 2 chats and it declined both.

- 1st chat asked about a minor shoulder injury most likely mechanisms

- 2nd chat asked about optimal bloodwork testing markers

kranke155 | root | parent
it seems to dislike biological chats. Rejected me on a chat that I am running with 4.8 as well on a rare condition I have.
Erem | parent | next
So the degradation to Opus 4.8 from the article isn't happening in practice?
mtkd | root | parent | next
No, you get a AUP violation and have to manually swap the model

(I had same issue, just asked it to check some code that 4.8 had modified earlier in day)

mpeg | root | parent | next
It is, it asks you if you want to continue as opus 4.8… but I was trying precisely to evaluate fable
andai | root | parent
Maybe that's only in the chat UI, and not the API?
CSSer | parent
Oh joy. A model whose safeguards make it prone towards code that make your systems less safe. How brilliant!