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Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.
TL;DR
- The US government has ordered Anthropic to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for foreign nationals, leading to a complete shutdown of these models for all customers.
- The directive cites national security concerns related to a discovered method for bypassing or 'jailbreaking' Fable 5.
- Anthropic argues that the identified vulnerabilities are minor, widely available in other models, and do not warrant a recall of their commercial product.
- The company maintains its 'defense in depth' strategy, which includes strong safeguards, extensive red-teaming, and 30-day data retention for monitoring and mitigation, is sufficient.
- Anthropic plans to share more details and is working to restore access, believing the government's action is based on a misunderstanding.