Anthropic denies its CEO was unreachable during White House calls about a Fable jailbreak vulnerability
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Anthropic is pushing back hard against claims its CEO was off the grid at a wellness retreat when the White House needed him during a scramble over export controls on Fable 5 and Mythos 5, yet the company still owns up to a 75-minute lag between first contact around noon and Amodei joining the calls.
White House Acted on Jailbreak Reports
After Amazon researchers surfaced prompts that bypassed safeguards in the newly available models, officials imposed export controls and required AWS to cut access, leaving other Claude versions untouched while the exact risk level stays disputed.
Key Details on Next Steps Stay Unclear
Anthropic disputes the severity of the technique and has not outlined when or how access might be restored, so the duration of the controls and any remediation timeline remain open.
Many users mocked Anthropic's CEO for delaying response to government calls and dismissed the wellness retreat and unavailability denials as lies or unprofessional excuses amid export controls disputes.
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I condemn libel "Dario was at wellness retreat" is almost certainly stereotype-driven bullshit cooked up by cruel baboons like Hegseth. Dario is a fanatic and a founder CEO, not a hippie, and he wouldn't go on a vacation while the obviously tense situation with Fable unfolds.
>Dario Amodei, who was at a wellness retreat. All of the gov stuff aside, how is the CEO unreachable after a major product release the same week at a "wellness retreat"? Anthropic says this is false but I really doubt this claim, its too stereo typtical to bot be true.
speed matters in topics of national security
anthropic claims it’s “absolutely false” their ceo was unreachable. in the same breath they admit he was unreachable for 75 minutes
@_its_not_real_ retard
@teortaxesTex I didn't know Mythos was a precog as well. Incredible that he knew a tense situation was going to unfold so he avoided taking time off in light of this.
@teortaxesTex Wellness retreat is code word for a gay bathhouse.
@MoonlitMonkey69 @_its_not_real_ @teortaxesTex I can see it tbh. Man belongs in tweed.
@MoonlitMonkey69 @_its_not_real_ @teortaxesTex >the dude up front wearing sandles and socks in a university lecture
That guy goes to wellness retreats. He does juice cleanses. Even odds he's also an aspiring buddhist of some variety, even if the aspiration is lightly held.
@MoonlitMonkey69 @_its_not_real_ @teortaxesTex Maybe. 🤷♀️
I mean, to be clear, I don't hold it against him if he is that type of guy. It's a perfectly cromulent type of guy. Not a hippie. Just... a uniquely regional yuppie varietal. "Bay Area Professional." Your Steves Job and those following in his footsteps.
@we_tarted @_its_not_real_ @teortaxesTex Not any of that IME.
@teortaxesTex Bro mixed up Dario and Jack Dorsey because he's watched too much TV.
@we_tarted @_its_not_real_ @teortaxesTex YES, exactly. Look at this fucker. He's no Dorsey or Jobs. He's that guy who brags about how much stuff he reads.
@teortaxesTex Well so then where was he?
@teortaxesTex Why didn't the CEO of Amazon call Dario instead of calling Bessent?
@teortaxesTex definitely wasn't a wellness retreat, but it's still somewhat strange that it took >1h to get in contact with him
If this was a lie from the admin, then it is an absolutely insane thing to lie about. Also, going forward, when writing those long essays of his, Dario should address the now demonstrated risk of having his ASI baby be controlled by an entity that is willing to do this to him. He always writes of the risks of authoritarians getting ASI. How about the scenario he currently finds himself in.
@vikhyatk The guy looked at his phone and saw federal government and said I'll call em back later 🥴
@teortaxesTex Interesting that the government blatantly hates Dario after displacing a government that blatantly hated Elon.
The morals aren’t better, just a different side of the same coin.
@teortaxesTex It was a shrimp wellness event. Honest mistake.
@we_tarted @_its_not_real_ @teortaxesTex This is in part, likely a large part of his companies tension with the USG. It's essentially geeks versus jocks.
@vikhyatk now you know why their uptime is what it is