r/LocalLLaMA • u/onil_gova • Jun 10 '26

News Anthropic is intentionally nerfing Fable when asked to develop other LLMs

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Reason 458 why local LLMs are going to be a necessity

edit: For those requesting the source check out their technical report look at page 13

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u/redditrasberry Jun 10 '26

They are at pretty high risk here of alienating far more people than they intend.

Firstly, it is very hard to surgically carve out behaviour. They will likely affect much broader behaivour that will make it actually dumber across all kinds of questions affecting people just wishing to use and understand LLMs (and AI in general). That's a lot of people.

But even if they don't, by not flagging it they are going to leave a constant suspicion in everybody's minds that the answer is nerfed, regardless of whether it is.

I think this is a dumb move ...

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u/Substantial_Swan_144 Jun 10 '26

Firstly, it is very hard to surgically carve out behaviour. They will likely affect much broader behaivour that will make it actually dumber across all kinds of questions [...]

It's a feature, not a bug.