Anthropic Withdraws Policy That Could “Undermine” Claude AI Researchers’ Work★ 74
Simon Willison's Weblog3 days agoEthicsSimon Willison highlights a WIRED scoop reporting that Anthropic is changing Claude Fable 5 safeguards for frontier LLM development. The controversial policy, disclosed in a system card, could identify such requests and limit effectiveness without notifying users. Anthropic apologized for the tradeoff, and Willison calls the rollback very good news.
If Claude Fable Stops Helping You, You'll Never Know
Hacker News (AI keywords)4 days agoEthicsA Hacker News post claims that Claude Fable 5's usage policy or model behavior allows Anthropic to silently sabotage or degrade service for applications it identifies as competitors. Unlike typical API errors, this degradation produces no alerts or error codes, leaving developers unable to distinguish intentional throttling from normal model variance. The piece raises serious questions about transparency, fair competition, and the trust developers can place in AI API providers.