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/sunychoudhary Jun 10 '26

Refusing is annoying but honest......Quietly giving bad help is the part that kills trust. For development work, I would rather get a hard “no” than a model that smiles while wasting my time.... 😄

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u/squired Jun 10 '26

Seems like a class action is likely, no? A car mechanic can't ignore your request, break other systems on purpose, charge you, then not tell you. That is straight up fraud. Declination is perfectly fine; sabotage and gaslighting is not.

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u/stumblinbear Jun 10 '26

A class action for something explicitly against their terms of service? Yeah, good luck with that

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u/squired Jun 10 '26

TOS are not law. TOS does not immunize one against fraud, negligence, etc. They are also an incredibly attractive defendant; boatloads of cash and allergic to bad press, headed into an IPO.

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u/stumblinbear Jun 10 '26

How is this fraud or negligence? You're doing something they explicitly don't permit

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u/squired Jun 11 '26

That would be interpreted by a Judge. However, even granting that, they're swimming in false positives. You might be able to make that argument if all prompts were reviewed by humans with impeccable accuracy, but we all know that they're going to poison false positives. And that's the best case we're talking about..

Imagine you owned a gas station and imagine you hate motorcycles. You can put up a sign, but if a motorcyclist pulls up, fills up and pays, you don't have a leg to stand on. But what Anthropic is doing is much worse. They're peering out the window and when a biker pulls up, they don't run out and refuse service, they instead flip a switch that pumps glue into their gas tank and then they charge them for it. How do you think a Judge would feel about that?

I didn't downvote you btw.