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rcr-anti 2 minutes ago [-]
I had already cancelled my subscription after finding the original Fable safeguards literally unusable (very basic chemistry, cryptography use cases), but with the false positives being admittedly worse now and the subscription not covering Fable for long I fail to see the point of consumer subscriptions now. Perhaps that's the goal, but it's a tough sell when Minimax M3 and GLM 5.2 are comfortably in Opus 4.5-4.8 territory but 1/5th-1/20th the price.
mil22 38 minutes ago [-]
"For Pro, Max, Team, and select Enterprise plans, Fable 5 will be included for up to 50% of weekly usage limits through July 7, after which it will be available via usage credits."
The party will be short-lived.
mkw5053 32 minutes ago [-]
Huge bummer. So what's the point of an anthropic subscription? Or is this just the end of subscriptions? Looking forward to gpt-5.6 (assuming we can still use our subscriptions there).
matthew-wegner 11 minutes ago [-]
An Anthropic subscription is a 90%+ off discount for tech influencers to hype up an IPO (no different from companies directly paying Instagram influencers, except less overt).
And yes, after the IPO.
UltraSane 10 minutes ago [-]
At least it is the end of endless arguments over subscription quotas.
tekacs 25 minutes ago [-]
I really hope that one day we reach a point where we feel confident enough in the standards of care in upstream software, that we can get rid of these safeguards.
This isn't said out of naiveté or the idea that companies won't cheap out, but at some point – if access to models for defense is broadly available enough – we have to take a step back and say, "Aggressively insure your code against attack with AI on your side, because after <date> the other side will just _have_ AI."
I feel like something lost in a lot of the discussion around mythos and fable is that computer security absolutely has a substantial defender's advantage. It is indeed possible to ship e.g. surfaces that would be super resilient to attack (e.g. no unnecessary open surfaces, etc.) modulo category-shift attacks like RowHammer, etc.
Besides, just making sure that more people in the world actually have access to non-lobotomized models, this is _necessary_ if open source is (hopefully) going to continue to progress and if jailbreaks aren't totally vanquished.
teruakohatu 24 minutes ago [-]
I hope the redeployed Fable 5 is the same as the version they pulled without any substantially increased restrictions.
tekacs 23 minutes ago [-]
Per the article, the safety margin on the classifier is even worse than it was before. It sounds like the model itself hasn't changed.
hughw 1 hours ago [-]
I've been wrestling for days with a recalcitrant Opus 4.8 unable to close the circle on an algorithm I'm sure, based on the three previous days' experience, Fable 5 will cut right through.
BatFastard 1 hours ago [-]
Yeah! I only knew it for 3 days but I was starting to fall in love!
trunnell 47 minutes ago [-]
Hooray! Glad everyone came to their senses and we can all get on with business.
I bet it'll continue to be messy at the frontier for the foreseeable future as society gradually wakes up to the consequences of strong AI.
steve_adams_86 1 hours ago [-]
It’s nice to have access again, but I’m hesitant to include it in my workflow now. In fact I’d rather not use American models at all if I could.
I have the sense that this limited usage model will persist, Opus at its current token price will gradually be phased out, and eventually the cost of these models will be unsustainable and impractical.
I’d rather not play this game anymore and seek out more reliable providers which may provide less capable models but aren’t going to gradually kneecap my plan or rug-pull me.
Frankly I’m much less concerned with sheer model capability these days and more interested in harnesses. Claude Code is not the best on the market, and I think there’s a lot of exploring and learning to do in that arena.
The whole Fable debacle has dramatically changed my perspective on the market and what I want from it/who I should support.
arjie 22 minutes ago [-]
Was there a use-case where you deployed Fable where you couldn’t use Opus in a non-interactive case? Perhaps Sonnet 5 will fill the gap because it’s better in agentic loops.
It’s so expensive, though. Useful interactively in coding agent but boy if you have a kind of task that Fable can do in an agentic loop that Opus can’t then you’re in a good place. Doubtless the frontier will move forward. These kinds of “problems of the future” are great to have solutions for.
And for an interactive agentic loop, not using Fable is just missing out on something. There’s no lock-in there.
gonight 24 minutes ago [-]
I agree with this, the last three months have been complete nonsense. I'll take a less capable model with a workflow I know well over playing "what got silently removed this time" or "figure out the latest model's quirks".
The behavior of the american AI field/industry this year feels unstable and unsustainable, and I'm personally ready to wash my hands of this and find/build something reliable.
altmanaltman 47 minutes ago [-]
I mean that's the software playbook, get users addicted by offering it cheap and once you have them hooked, you raise the prices. There is no reason to think any non american company wouldn't follow this strategy. It's a different matter than the export control issue entirely and one that is systematic to software in general.
steve_adams_86 14 minutes ago [-]
> There is no reason to think any non american company wouldn't follow this strategy.
This is generally true, but there are some providers offering inference at relatively stable prices. They aren’t Opus-tier models, but some appear to be at or close to Sonnet 4.5 or so. For much of the work I do, this is fine.
Essentially if you aren’t at the frontier, you can find cheaper tokens that aren’t about to be rug-pulled or decommissioned on a whim.
sparkling 4 minutes ago [-]
>Our testing confirmed that many less capable models—including Claude Opus 4.8, GPT-5.5, and Kimi K2.7—could identify the same vulnerabilities as Fable 5 did in the report.
That is nice advertising for Kimi, huh?
twalla 25 minutes ago [-]
"some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8."
The party will be short-lived.
And yes, after the IPO.
This isn't said out of naiveté or the idea that companies won't cheap out, but at some point – if access to models for defense is broadly available enough – we have to take a step back and say, "Aggressively insure your code against attack with AI on your side, because after <date> the other side will just _have_ AI."
I feel like something lost in a lot of the discussion around mythos and fable is that computer security absolutely has a substantial defender's advantage. It is indeed possible to ship e.g. surfaces that would be super resilient to attack (e.g. no unnecessary open surfaces, etc.) modulo category-shift attacks like RowHammer, etc.
Besides, just making sure that more people in the world actually have access to non-lobotomized models, this is _necessary_ if open source is (hopefully) going to continue to progress and if jailbreaks aren't totally vanquished.
I bet it'll continue to be messy at the frontier for the foreseeable future as society gradually wakes up to the consequences of strong AI.
I have the sense that this limited usage model will persist, Opus at its current token price will gradually be phased out, and eventually the cost of these models will be unsustainable and impractical.
I’d rather not play this game anymore and seek out more reliable providers which may provide less capable models but aren’t going to gradually kneecap my plan or rug-pull me.
Frankly I’m much less concerned with sheer model capability these days and more interested in harnesses. Claude Code is not the best on the market, and I think there’s a lot of exploring and learning to do in that arena.
The whole Fable debacle has dramatically changed my perspective on the market and what I want from it/who I should support.
It’s so expensive, though. Useful interactively in coding agent but boy if you have a kind of task that Fable can do in an agentic loop that Opus can’t then you’re in a good place. Doubtless the frontier will move forward. These kinds of “problems of the future” are great to have solutions for.
And for an interactive agentic loop, not using Fable is just missing out on something. There’s no lock-in there.
This is generally true, but there are some providers offering inference at relatively stable prices. They aren’t Opus-tier models, but some appear to be at or close to Sonnet 4.5 or so. For much of the work I do, this is fine.
Essentially if you aren’t at the frontier, you can find cheaper tokens that aren’t about to be rug-pulled or decommissioned on a whim.
That is nice advertising for Kimi, huh?
disappointed but not surprised