Yes! I have hit the same brick wall. What sort of idiots are doing this? Honestly, I have no idea. And just before their IPO. SO far Anthropic marketing has been perfect and spotless. This is serious slipup.
It's temporary. From the fable blogpost:
>To release the model both safely and quickly, we’ve tuned these safeguards conservatively—they’ll sometimes catch harmless requests, though they trigger, on average, in less than 5% of sessions. With more capable models arriving in the coming months, we’re working to improve our safeguards and reduce false positives as quickly as we can.
Sure. IMO a lot of people will not touch fable again. The risk is to high. If they don't want the model to be good in some field they shouldn't train it on it.
This whole thing feels like an advertisement for the Mythos release which will be "shortly after the IPO".
They had similar messages on Opus, they never fixed or relaxed the topic-related safeguards there. I doubt they will here, either.
It's good they're being overcautious here. The alternative is far worse.
The alternative of... saving lives?
Didn't you know? Lab work being a skill is fake news. Jimmy Schoolshooter can make a couple of kilos of Anthrax in an afternoon with our cool genie.
Remember to buy the IPO!
It doesn’t take too much apparently to tweak a virus
They don't want the real risk of someone using it to make biological or genetically targeted weapons, and they don't want the social risk of someone asking it a bunch of leading questions in order to 'prove' some racist thesis or to 'prove' Mythos is woke if it declines to along with their performative inquiry.
Let's face it, if some rando comes up to and asks if you have a few minutes to talk about population biology there's a good chance they're a kook.
The alternative of not hyping the IPO enough
Will someone think of the children