Thursday, 11th June 2026
Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude. Big scoop for Maxwell Zeff at Wired:
“We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible.” Anthropic said in a statement to WIRED. “We made the wrong tradeoff and we apologize for not getting the balance right.”
There's been a huge outcry about Anthropic's policy, tucked away in their system card, that Claude Fable/Mythos would identify "requests targeting frontier LLM development" and "limit effectiveness" without notifying the user.
It's very good news that they're dropping this.