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Anthropic makes frontier LLM safeguards visible after researcher backlash
Anthropic reversed its policy of silently degrading Claude's performance on frontier AI research requests, now making safeguard triggers visible and returning explicit refusal reasons.
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SourceSimon Willison
Anthropic has reversed a safeguard policy in Claude Fable 5 that silently limited the model's effectiveness when detecting requests related to frontier LLM development. The company announced it will now make these safeguards visible, with flagged requests falling back to Claude Opus 4.8 and users re...
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