Fable ban was never about a jailbreak? (techcrunch.com)

103 points by amarant 2 hours ago

hk__2 an hour ago

This is mostly a restatement of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552687

dang 34 minutes ago

Ok, we'e moved the comments thither, except the ones that are only relevant to current article.

fsckboy 29 minutes ago

you missed the chance to also say hither

neogodless an hour ago

To expand on this:

Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak (theregister.com) 398 points | 6 hours ago | 223 comments

dualvariable 3 minutes ago

Ultimately, I bet Anthropic is fine with this because they needed to take Fable down to improve the guardrails (that were getting a ton of pushback) and they consider treating Fable as "too dangerous" to just be good PR hype for them. And they just get a little more anti-Trump "cred".

simonw an hour ago

This is a frustrating article - it provides no new information at all to support the claim that it was "never about a jailbreak".

I suspect there's more to the story than has been reported too, but I'd like information to help turn those suspicions into something more concrete.

kodt an hour ago

Yes, this is just an even shorter rehash of what has been said several times now.

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siliconc0w 24 minutes ago

I don't see how more advanced models won't get gated to specific known KYC'd entities. Classification-style guardrails will never be sufficient. Distillation attacks too are really hard to prevent. Open-source models can have their guardrails easily stripped away so it'll be incredibly dangerous to continue to release more and more capable OSS models that can and will be used to give bad actors 100x leverage.

deviation an hour ago

andxor an hour ago

This is an opinion piece.

jadar an hour ago

I feel like this headline is a bit over-stated. There is not a ton of evidence it was about a jailbreak, and neither was there evidence that is was about retribution.

UrineSqueegee an hour ago

Should be pointed out this is an opinion article

d4rkp4ttern 42 minutes ago

TechCrunch articles should be ignored into oblivion.

exabrial 42 minutes ago

I think this is pretty low quality content for HN.

cratermoon an hour ago

So the article calls it "knowledge gaps". Has technical expertise ever mattered when the law wants to ban or restrict something it doesn't like? The DMCA comes to mind.

Veer_Pratap08 an hour ago

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catigula an hour ago

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SG- an hour ago

Look at how the Trump administration treats Canada, it's the same thing. They lie and make up reasons to punish countries that hurts their feelings.

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