Anthropic suspended access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US government directive citing national security concerns.
Anthropic has abruptly disabled its flagship AI models after a US government directive citing national security concerns. Anthropic has suspended access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models after receiving a US government export control directive citing national security concerns.it received the directive at 5:21 pm ET, instructing it 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.
Anthropic abruptly disabled the models for all users in order to ensure compliance. It said all other Anthropic models, such as Opus 4.8, are not affected.
"We are complying with the government’s legal directive and are removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users," the firm said. Anthropic said the government did not provide specific details about the alleged threat, but said it believes authorities are concerned about a possible “jailbreak” method capable of bypassing Fable 5's safeguards.
“To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws,” said Anthropic. A non-universal jailbreak is a far lower threat than a "universal jailbreak," a method to broadly bypass a model's safeguards, it explained.
"We disagree that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people. If this standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers," it added. Anthropic said it believes the government order is a result of a misunderstanding and is working to restore access for users as soon as possible. Jesse Coghlan
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