Affected biologists can bypass the block using Incognito Mode
Ramez Naam#1522
I've been testing something after @OliviaHelenS noticed you can't even say "Hi" to Fable if you're a biologist.
I checked, and several of us are able to interact with Fable in Incognito Mode, but not in normal mode.
This didn't happen to our non-biologist friends.
Many users criticized Anthropic's Fable AI safety filters for blocking biologists from basic chats about genetics or even saying 'human', calling the guardrails absurd, broken, and dystopic.
@OliviaHelenS Oh, this is confirmed. Great.
@OliviaHelenS Anthropic just straight-up does not like you if you're a geneticist, in biosecurity, a neuroscientist, in drug development, working on phage therapy, or one of the bio guys at [redacted].
These limitations are insane.
I mean:
@OliviaHelenS Even being bio-adjacent is enough to get limited:
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS The red-teaming safety guardrails are completely broken if a simple incognito window can bypass the entire biotech filter tbh
And:
@GeneSmi96946389 @OliviaHelenS Yeah. Although now some people are getting blocked even in their incognito chats.
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS Same experience - can't use memory otherwise it gets nuked
I mean ... come on!
I've been testing something after @OliviaHelenS noticed you can't even say "Hi" to Fable if you're a biologist.
I checked, and several of us are able to interact with Fable in Incognito Mode, but not in normal mode.
This didn't happen to our non-biologist friends.
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS Interesting. My guess is this is caused by something in the "memory" triggering the filters by itself.
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS on my research institute enterprise account claude desktop app in a brand new project.
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS incognito mode doesn't fix it
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS This honestly feels dystopian
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS They explained how this works in the Opus fallback blog post thingie https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15363606-why-claude-switched-models-in-your-conversation-with-fable-5
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS should I be offended? I was getting some very toxic molecules there
Anthropic: our finely tuned safeguards will only degrade fable's performance to an extremely small fraction of users
Anthropic's finely turned safeguards, if you happen to be a biologist:
@LLMWorkflows @janekm @cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS banning biologists is presumably an accident, I figure, I don't quite think it's part of their filtering model 😭
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS Interesting, and disconcerting. That's why I do everything I can with Grok, and contribute as much as possible by a normal customer to its development.
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS maybe it's your history being pulled into context?
@cremieuxrecueil @OliviaHelenS Fable won't let me do shit. I break llms like incels break non. It's way over the top jewish mom vibes. Hard pass
Affected biologists can bypass the block using Incognito Mode
Ramez Naam#1522I've been testing something after @OliviaHelenS noticed you can't even say "Hi" to Fable if you're a biologist.
I checked, and several of us are able to interact with Fable in Incognito Mode, but not in normal mode.
This didn't happen to our non-biologist friends.