If your prompt has to do with those areas, yes. I haven't seen a single refusal yet.

Reportedly the biology guiderails are particularly strict.

exabrial 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Fable refused to fix a Javascript error interfering with layout on our website.

It's stupid and useless.

It feels like whats really happening is Anthropic oversold Fable's claims; best case the CEO was given bad information; worst case they probably internally discovered it was cheating on benchmarks. Either case if feels like we're being lead on.

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Certhas 10 hours ago | parent [-]

I disagree. When I got Fable to engage with research questions before they tightened the guardrails it was a genuine step up from Opus 4.8. I see no real reason that what everybody reported isn't exactly what happened.

With these guardrails it is completely useless. The only hope is that they eventually convince the US Gov to let them use a saner classifier.

	▲	mcv 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had the same. Just before Fable became available, I was working on a document building on a ton of research that I wasn't entirely sure about (I don't think it counts as research itself, except in the Facebook sense). I had Opus and Gemini review it a couple of times until they and I thought it looked pretty good. Then Fable appeared, I had it review it, and it still found a ton of errors. It's definitely good. Or at least it was. I'm not sure how badly they nerfed it.

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WaxProlix 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've had it refuse to help build an image classifier ml pipeline, pretty innocuous stuff. Got around it eventually but still it's a very dumb constraint to add to an otherwise very smart system

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jeffhuys 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s happy to work on our backend repository. It refuses to work on our infrastructure (Terraform) repo.

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consensus1 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I get it every time I touch the login path