U.S. orders Anthropic to suspend foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
The U.S. government issued an export-control directive ordering Anthropic to suspend access to its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States. Anthropic said it complied Friday evening, disabling those models for non-U.S. users and for foreign-national Anthropic employees, while contesting that a reported universal jailbreak alone justifies a permanent recall. Officials cited national security concerns and the claimed universal jailbreak as the reason for the order, applying export controls to restrict cross-border use of the company’s most advanced commercial models. The decision raises immediate questions about identity verification, export rules, and which governments or companies will control access to frontier AI capabilities going forward.
So an employee from another company (I've heard Amazon) flagged to the government that Fable 5 had enabled a jailbreak scary enough to trigger export controls. VERY curious to know what's really going on here archive.is/2JsCK
Katrina makes 5e stuff114god i am really not up on AI industry terminology and clicked this thinking that Peter Molyneux had finally fucked up real, real bad
Joe10Covert marketing maneuver coordinated between the WH and Anthropic to boost IPO prices in exchange for a consideration
Brad Reed8I feel like we're collectively dancing on the edge of a razor with this shit. Only a matter of time...
Ghost of Internet Past4Likely all marketing stunt-adjacent bullshit. They do this every large release since GPT-3, saying the models are just too dangerous for public release. Lo and behold, it turns out to just be slightly better than the previous, but still with the same fundamental flaws.
To get the obvious bit out of the way, this is ridiculous, is impossible to implement, assumes that no US citizen has committed a cybercrime, and that every foreign national is a hazard. It also completely changes the meaning of the buzzword du jour, "sovereignty"
Rachel Coldicutt29Every non-US govt building on US infra needs to be eyeballing this with interest. (Looks to Westminster.) How does the UK AI Action Plan respond to US measures that could revoke access to US tech at will?
Heather Burns2When I was living in DC at the turn of the millennium, a uniformed Pentagon brass interviewed me because a friend was applying for an entry level analyst job at the CIA. He had to list every one of his friends and also every foreigner he’d ever had contact with.
