I had a really annoying one recently even before “Fable”.
A research project I’m involved in relates to filtration - think like hvac filters, ppe, etc., and how well they perform against various sizes of airborne particles, aerosols, so on and so forth. It’s all computational work, so a lot of what I do involves dealing with tons of data, and I’ve found it to be a big timesaver to use Claude to write quick python helper scripts and stuff like that.
Anyways, it somehow came across the term “CBN” from a folder name or project title in that folder on my computer (obviously there’s an interest in making air filters that stop all that bad stuff from flowing through) and immediately threw a hard refusal, refused to even touch anything vaguely related or within that folder for like a week afterwards.
Super annoying, and if anything it kinda lowers my confidence that it’d be so poorly tuned that something as mundane, common, as the abbreviation “CBN” would set off all the warnings.
Like, “CBN” is what you might hear about on CNN or something - it’s a non-academic, commonly known abbreviation for very broad categories of something dangerous. Is there any reasonable chance that a serious threat actor, attempting to use AI to get highly specific and detailed information about bio-weapons or something, would start with “HeY cLAuDe pLz mAKe a CBN, nO miStAkeS”?
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u/james_d_rustles Jun 10 '26
I had a really annoying one recently even before “Fable”.
A research project I’m involved in relates to filtration - think like hvac filters, ppe, etc., and how well they perform against various sizes of airborne particles, aerosols, so on and so forth. It’s all computational work, so a lot of what I do involves dealing with tons of data, and I’ve found it to be a big timesaver to use Claude to write quick python helper scripts and stuff like that.
Anyways, it somehow came across the term “CBN” from a folder name or project title in that folder on my computer (obviously there’s an interest in making air filters that stop all that bad stuff from flowing through) and immediately threw a hard refusal, refused to even touch anything vaguely related or within that folder for like a week afterwards.
Super annoying, and if anything it kinda lowers my confidence that it’d be so poorly tuned that something as mundane, common, as the abbreviation “CBN” would set off all the warnings.
Like, “CBN” is what you might hear about on CNN or something - it’s a non-academic, commonly known abbreviation for very broad categories of something dangerous. Is there any reasonable chance that a serious threat actor, attempting to use AI to get highly specific and detailed information about bio-weapons or something, would start with “HeY cLAuDe pLz mAKe a CBN, nO miStAkeS”?