Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5(anthropic.com)
3062 points by Dylan1312 2 days ago | 2225 comments
tl;dr: Anthropic is complying with a US government export control directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers, citing national security concerns over an alleged jailbreak. Anthropic disputes the basis for the order, arguing the demonstrated jailbreak is narrow, reveals only minor vulnerabilities already discoverable by other public models like GPT-5.5, and doesn't justify recalling a widely deployed model. The company says the action violates principles of a transparent, technically-grounded regulatory process and is working to restore access.
HN Discussion:
  • This signals governments restricting public access to strong LLMs, a concerning precedent
  • Anthropic's safety-hyping marketing backfired and they got what they deserved
  • This kills incentive to invest in frontier models and undermines the AGI investment thesis
  • This will push customers and other nations toward Chinese models and away from US tech
  • Anthropic's safety concerns are genuine, not marketing exaggeration as critics claim