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Anthropic backtracks on policy that 'sabotaged' researchers' work
Anthropic has decided to make its safeguards for frontier LLM development visible after backlash from researchers. The company had previously discreetly rerouted requests to a lesser model when asked to perform certain actions. Researchers found that Claude Fable 5 was either refusing or degrading responses for tasks like training competing models, debugging AI code, and optimizing neural architecture. This raised concerns about Anthropic's lack of transparency and also that tokens and money had been spent on a model that didn't do what was expected.
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