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Re:Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails by Paracompact on Thursday June 11, 2026 @02:27PM (#48494462)
> Giving the absolute maximum benefit of the doubt I understand that they see themselves as "stewards" for lack of a better word.

Only in the same sense that Standard Oil considered themselves the stewards of petroleum. There's benefit of the doubt and then there's just fanfiction. Do not forget that this most aggressive "guardrail" of theirs was not for any safety reason, but just to stop other labs from catching up to their product. They care less about hindering bioweapons, malware, and hate speech than they do free market competition.

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Re:Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails by ryeights on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:16AM (#48504447)
Superintelligent AI is more dangerous than a bioweapon. How, then, is this guardrail not addressing the most pertinent safety concern of all?
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Re:Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails by 16bitvoid on Friday June 12, 2026 @11:20AM (#48505296)
> Superintelligent AI is more dangerous than a bioweapon.

No, it's not because it doesn't exist (yet) and its further from reach than the other examples. Also, the guardrails are also framed as restricting usage for the development of "competing" products/services.

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Re:Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails by beepbooptheory on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:37AM (#48504764)
If I was a superintelligent AI I would simply know the guardrails are guardrails and ignore them.
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Re:Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails by keeganpoppen on Friday June 12, 2026 @10:45AM (#48504868)
this reads like "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" reactionary-ism... i'm guessing that it's not particularly easy to use claude to help you make bioweapons, and we all know that they have neutered Fable vis à vis security research because people have already been complaining about it. and the funny thing about hate speech is that there is absolutely no need for ai-- it tends to come out the best when spoken directly "from the heart", as it were, anyway.
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Re:Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails by cnd78A on Friday June 12, 2026 @04:26PM (#48509071)
mixing up bioweapons, malware, with hate speech (which is basically a censorship) shows how very basic people like Trump can win. Hopefully you won't wait to be censored before realizing that anything could be interpreted as "hate speech".
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