alt Hacker NewsI'd like to offer a counter-point to many of the comments here. While I understand being stymied and frustrated by a product one is paying for...
At the same time, I personally think the tradeoff between "having guardrails" and "some users are unhappy with the product" is well worth it. Think of what would happen if all of us who aren't so well intentioned could exploit Fable in terrible ways. Surely this tradeoff is better than saying "we can't make it perfect, so whoops, we aren't going to have any guardrails at all"? Especially because Anthropic did pretty extensive red-teaming of Mythos & Fable...
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The "guardrails" are just Anthropic's attempt at building a moat. Guarantee they'll be seeking regulation around AI as well to ensure a form of regulatory capture. Guardrails, in this context, are useless. Anyone who's sufficiently motivated will either get around them, or will just run their own model on their home hardware. There's already tools that one can use to remove the guardrails present in open weight models.
Guardrails against what? Rehashing public wikipedia information?
Execution matters, and they did a trurly horrible job that crippled their product to the point of being useless and a joke. Huge mistakes were made and im sure they regret it already, heads will roll.
What would happen, exactly?
My imagination says “nothing much”.
Yeah but a lot of the guardrails are pretty obviously to prevent competition not for safety.