Maybe Fable can do the same things better than other models, but having to tiptoe around to avoid tripping safeguards makes GPT 5.6 so much easier to work with that I don’t even bother with Fable (or Opus 5) now.
Like middle school level genetics stuff from a guy who hasn’t been in school for decades.
They need to fix that. It’s just broken. Nobody is making bioweapons if they’re asking the dumb sort of questions I’m asking.
Also, it refused to identify an actor in a popular tv show from a photo. Apparently the policy is it won’t identify ANYONE from a photo, now. Even publicly listed cast members from a very popular show, from a photo of a scene in that show.
It claims that’s a fixed security policy. Nevermind how that makes absolutely no sense… argue about it enough and it terminates the chat.
I don’t know what the Anthropic clown car is even doing anymore, but I won’t be surprised when the others eat their lunch.
There can only be one fix: send Amodei packing and release unguardrailed models.
It happens to me all the time with things that have nothing to do with security, Fable spawns a subagent that then adversarially checks the code Fable just wrote and hits guardrails, with zero prompting from me.
Having not asked a single security question it will write wildly vulnerable code, go back and fix it, and guardrail itself out of existence after charging me a large sum with no refunds for no output and having not fixed it because that might be secuirty adjacents.
And if it doesn't do this you end up with code that has such holes, store xss , no authz ... if it does not go back and notice it has written bad code.
Since they hide thinking and reasoning from the user (who is also paying for those tokens) it is a black box what is triggering it, has the LLM this time thought of "Oh, this has XSS" and used a bad dangerous word such as XSS, while the previous conversation did not ?