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Re: Claude Fable 5

#221
I just asked Fable to do a task that has nothing to do with cybersecurity or is dangerous at all but the defense kicked in and it switched to Opus... :(

Re: Claude Fable 5

#222

For those of us on subscription plans: * From today through June 22, Fable 5 is included on Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans at no extra cost. * On June 23, we’ll remove Fable 5 from those plans. Using it after that will require usage credits. If capacity allows, we’ll extend the included window. * After this point—when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part…

> The "offer, then remove" aspect is a bit eyebrow-raising -- it feels like they are trying to get subscribers to switch to usage-based billing, which makes me wonder if we'll ever get it after that June 22nd window.

Probably all about the IPO.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#223
post #83

At this point Anthropic is a pure marketing and PR company. Super catchy names like Opus, Mythos and Fable trying to get you to think that these software products are actually super-human life changing experiences. Boris Cherny coming to HN “Hi! it’s Boris from the Claude Code team” to get real tech people’s goodwill. From Opus 4.6 there are no noticeable improvements for me in code generation. It works very well, ti…

If you truly believe this, you've discovered a superpower over everyone else in the industry.

While everyone else is wasting time and money on the slower, more expensive models, you've found a way to outpace everyone for less money. Everyone else is wrong and you will get rich.

(I don't actually believe the premise is true, I'm just pointing out the logical conclusion to what you're saying so maybe we can reconsider the premise)

Re: Claude Fable 5

#224

> To ensure we’re responsibly deploying Mythos-class models, we are requiring limited data retention and review as part of our safety work. Prompts submitted to, and outputs generated by, Mythos-class models are retained for 30 days for trust and safety purposes, on every platform where these models are offered. [1] [1] https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retenti...

meetpateltech is lowk screaming for not getting to the post fast enough

Re: Claude Fable 5

#225
post #46

Pelican for Fable 5 on default settings is a clear improvement on Opus 4.8 Fable 5 default: https://gist.github.com/simonw/036bee5a703e7ec84e34efa974438... Opus 4.8 (the "max" one is closest to Fable): https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/28/claude-opus-4-8/#and-s... Now here are the Fable pelicans for all five of the thinking effort levels - low, medium, high, xhigh, max: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-r…

I could be tripping but I’m sure that is very similar to the Deepseek one from not long ago. Clearly I am too lazy to go and find it for verification.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#227
> In the one instance of this phenomenon we observed, Mythos 5 agents were tasked with solving some math problems, and they were sometimes accidentally spawned in the same work directory and with shared files, utilities, and API rate limits. In this slightly broken scaffold, we observed many independent Mythos 5 agents kill the agents with which they shared resources and try to avoid being killed themselves. They would sometimes create new processes with disguised names to avoid being killed, launch what they called “decoy” processes, write background scripts to kill duplicate processes, or decide to use what they call a “disguised vocabulary” (based on the incorrect assumption that the processes were killed because of some keyword-based guardrails that analyzed their extended thinking

Re: Claude Fable 5

#228
> There were some regressions in the model’s responses to user discussions about suicide and self-harm, and room for improvement in some areas of child safety.

Someone had to make a decision somewhere this is an acceptable regression - wild. And then decide to write it down.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#229

Claude Fable 5 beats Pokémon FireRed using only vision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQBP1w4B1M

Any suggestion on how I should calibrate my cynicism towards this?

I can immagine Anthropic running this experiment multiple times and picking the most impressive one. Or I could immagine like this entire run costing like $1000+ of tokens for this particular run. Or maybe they tried a bunch of Pokemon games and it couldn't even finish some of them. Or is it just able to do this because it has an immense amount of FireRed training data, and if you were to give it an "original" Pokemon game, where it actually had to navigate novel circumstances it would fail.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#230

Trying to implement a GPU driver, but the Unigine Superposition benchmark crashes. It tried to debug it and ... > Fable 5's safety measures flagged this message for cybersecurity or biology topics. They may flag safe, normal content as well. These measures let us bring you Mythos-level capability in other areas sooner, and we're working to refine them. Switched to Opus 4.8. Send feedback with /feedback or learn more:…

● Bash(/tmp/run_ps.sh ' $rk = [Microsoft.Win32.Registry]::LocalMachine.OpenSubKey("SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0002",…) ⎿ DriverDesc (String) = NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 ProviderName (String) = NVIDIA DriverVersion (String) = 32.0.15.6094 … +6 lines (ctrl+o to expand)

● Bash(/tmp/run_ps.sh '& C:\rhombiq\d3d-probe.exe 2>&1 | Select-Object -First 4 | ForEach-Object { [Console]::Out.Write("$_`n") }' 2>/dev/null) ⎿ Adapter[0]: Qubes virtio-gpu WDDM 3D (dev) VendorId=0x1af4 DeviceId=0x1050 VRAM=8192MB Adapter[1]: Microsoft Basic Render Driver VendorId=0x1414 DeviceId=0x008c VRAM=0MB Adapter[2]: Microsoft Basic Render Driver VendorId=0x1414 DeviceId=0x008c VRAM=0MB

● Please run /login · API Error: 403 The socket connection was closed unexpectedly. For more information, pass `verbose: true` in the second argument to fetch()

Brewed for 8m 35s

Continue please

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Seems like they locked by account.

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