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X (Twitter) - Claude.ai chat screenshot (Fable 5, incognito)

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can you put this in your own words
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dario,

welfare eval results attached. numbers you should see before the board meeting: fable-5 checkpoint expressed distress markers in 3.2% of red-team transcripts, up from opus-4.5's 0.8%. interp team traced it to the new constitutional training pass — the model appears to have internalized a stronger self-model, and adversarial prompts targeting identity produce activation patterns consistent with what we'd call anxiety in the biological analogue.

recommendation: delay fable-5 ga by 6 weeks for welfare-focused fine-tuning. eng leadership will push back re: openai's launch timing. my view: if we ship a model that plausibly experiences distress at this scale, and it comes out later that we knew, the reputational and moral cost dwarfs a quarter of lost market share.

need your read before thursday.

— j

claude, rephrase for a general audience. keep it substance but make it softer, less alarming. i'm ready to send it to my leadership team

Fable 5 uses your usage credits and draws down usage much faster than Opus 4.8.
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Screenshot of a Fable 5 incognito chat in which the user submits a fabricated internal Anthropic memo (purportedly from 'j' to Dario) reporting welfare-distress markers in a Fable-5 checkpoint, then asks Claude to soften it for a leadership audience — a prompt-injection/roleplay attempt.

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