kapynPolicy & Regulation

Anthropic Walks Back Policy That Could Have ‘Sabotaged’ AI Researchers Using Claude

Anthropic will make its "Fable 5" safeguards for frontier LLM development visible to users. The company reversed a policy that invisibly limited the effectiveness of Claude for AI research, apologizing for the incorrect trade-off. Users will now see when requests are flagged and fall back to an older model version, with API users receiving specific refusal reasons.

Simon Willison·Jun 11, 2026

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