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ben_wyesterday at 7:40 AM0 repliesview on HN

> I don't think you can 100% ensure your queries have absolutely no biology and cyber keywords inside.

Obviously. Almost everything is a precursor to something dangerous, to the extent that if some model isn't aware of the risk it will wander into it blindly, e.g. suggesting leaving raw garlic and olive oil alone for a week without awareness this will likely breed botulism bacteria.

> This makes models like Fable 5 impossible to use in any serious agentic task, because you can't even guarantee the model, which is a basic thing you need to build on.

This is binary thinking: "100% ensure", "impossible to use", "can't even guarantee the model".

Outside computers, most work is not binary, it's probability, e.g. "this skyscraper will probably survive being hit by an aircraft; oh we didn't mean a 747 we meant a small Cessna, but what's the chances of a 747 crashing into it soon after takeoff?".

Fable being too cautious for its own good (especially since the other models were not) is a fair criticism, but this isn't a binary question.