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Harvard's Michael Baym finds a three-emoji sequence triggers biological safety flags in the Fable 5 AI model

The AI interpreted them as hoping an agent isn't contagious.

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Users in the replies criticized Fable AI's safety filter for triggering on just three emojis, calling the situation incredible in a very not-good way.

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Update: you can get blocked by Fable's biosecurity flags for just two emoji 🦠🧬

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I beat it, three emoji and Fable flags it

Found the shortest input that gets flagged by Claude. What do I win?

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@baym @techno0ptimist .

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fyruz@FyruzOne

@baym Try saying hi with memory on

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david@david_kochman

@baym 😈 🧬

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Mihir@mihirneal

@parmita @baym @techno0ptimist it's because in the memory it knows you're a comp bio person and any bio == bad. try on incognito chat

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