When your instructions are taken literally, you may not get the outcome you expected. Is your AI (Gen AI / Chatbot / AI Agent) doing what you mean or is it doing exactly what your instructions say?
ETHICS
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Which AI lab is most trusted for users’ best interests?
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Which AI lab do you trust the most to act in users’ best interests?
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Anthropic reverses policy degrading Claude Fable 5 after backlash
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That was quick: Anthropic reversed a controversial policy that would have secretly degraded Claude Fable 5 for users doing frontier AI research after backlash from researchers who saw it as covert sabotage of competing AI development.
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Complaint about modifying products secretly without notice
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I'm not saying they shouldn't cap their products. But they shouldn't do it behind the customer's back. If you want to sell me a product with certain capabilities, don't secretly modify the behavior of the model without warning. You cannot be a seller of a technology that you later censor…
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AI dominance by few labs and technological race for safety criticized
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Surely one or two labs should not dominate AI. It also shouldn’t be a technological race to decide who gets to keep the world safe (or not).
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Anthropic backs down on invisible sabotage of Fable
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As expected, Anthropic backs down on its intention to sabotage without warning the user when using Fable for AI research. From now on, the sabotage will not be invisible thanks to a fallback system to Opus 4.8, as it does with other topics.
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Visible cyber/bio refusals vs invisible frontier LLM refusals
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Those were the visible refusals for cyber/bio/etc – it was just the refusals for "frontier LLM development" that were deliberately made invisible
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Cry me a river: pirated humanity used to train AI models
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Cry me a river they’re pirated fucking humanity to train their models
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Fable 5: Making guardrails visible for LLMs, canceling a scandalous decision
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Do not miss the exact text however: « We modify the guardrails of Fable 5 for the development of cutting-edge LLMs to make them visible » – making them visible means they cancel the truly scandalous (dare I say 'misaligned') decision to have
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Honest refusal is a win over lying
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I read and entirely understood it, and I quoted the exact text that said "to make them visible" I see this as a win. I don't want models that lie to me – refusing a task but being honest about that refusal is a big improvement
