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Re: Claude Fable 5

#631

> In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restrictio…

This is deeply vile behavior; not remotely the actions of good people.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#632
Not useful, getting this the whole time: 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

Re: Claude Fable 5

#633

> Drug design: Using Mythos 5, our internal protein design experts accelerated aspects of the drug design process by around ten times. In one example, they found that Mythos 5, with protein design and bioinformatics tools but no human assistance, matches or beats skilled human operators. In doing so, the model executes all of the tasks that are normally completed by a scientist: choosing binding sites, selecting and…

It's selective reporting. Says 'in one example', but out of how many, is that one-shot, or is it a random result out of 100. It's a marketing doc.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#635

> In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restrictio…

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Re: Claude Fable 5

#636

I'm still happy with Opus 4.6 and not impressed with all the models that have come out since then. They seem to use significantly more resources with similar or worse results. Hopefully Anthropic will continue to support this tier of model and offer it in their subscriptions, but in any case, there are plenty of viable alternatives.

I've personally liked 4.6 the best to date, preferring it by far to 4.7 and 4.8 (even with these on max effort!), both in Claude Code and for non-coding tasks in the chat UIs.

Still early but from my first few interactions with Fable on high in both settings, it feels like it might finally dethrone 4.6 for me, but time will tell.

Hoping it doesn't get nerfed and eventually comes back to the subscriptions.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#637
Not seeing the refusals everyone is talking about, but I’ve only spent a few hours with it so far.

Had it review a password generator library I wrote to see if the passwords have biases and review how cryptographically secure the code is and had it review a registration/login flow for security issues, as two security examples, and it did just that.

Overall, I like the model so far, but not enough to pay past my subscription to keep it. Once it’s out of the subscription, I’m done with it.

Re: Claude Fable 5

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I've spent enough time with this now in Claude Code (and Claude.ai and Claude Code for web) to have an opinion on Fable 5: it's a beast. I'm throwing some VERY difficult problems at at - things I've been dragging my heels on for months - and it's crunching through them very happily. One that I'm willing to share (albeit from just a week ago) - I built a Python library last week that bundles MicroPython compiled to WA…

Yeah same here, Fable on "high" is producing substantially better results than Open 4.8 on xhigh for me and my actual real-world evals today. It "feels" smarter and doesn't use nearly as many tokens running in circles. As a result I've been able to run two large refactors today without hitting the context limit danger zones - it's more expensive but also more efficient. It's been able to find some bugs that Opus miss…

I keep getting this message:

> 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

I'm working on an internal tool that does new business prospecting data collection, scoring, etc. This is ridiculous.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#639
I tried to give it something challenging but not something that is too much and it ate the entire session budget on this task alone.

Re: Claude Fable 5

#640

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

hi, pokemon red expert here: that video has since been taken private. there is a new what i would assume to be version of that video posted here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_50J84fMY and heavily redacted with most of the game actually omitted. very possibly this is just another case of anthropic protecting us from their models' immense power
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