It blocked us at 'hello!' Anthropic Fable 5 refusing innocuous prompts

The Register
Jun 10, 2026, 4:20 pm150 pts
Anthropic's newly released Claude Fable 5 generative AI model is trying so hard to be safe that it's hurting its own userbase. Customers attempting to use the AI knowledge regurgitator are reporting that the model is refusing to answer harmless questions, an issue that has annoyed security researchers following…

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