Fable 5 attack success rate: 5.4%
Fable 5's adversarial jailbreak attack success rate was just 5.4%, compared to 83% for Claude Opus 4.6, per Anthropic's own data.
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TWiT 1088: Model Not Available - Anthropic's Fable Shutdown & Apple's Siri Update
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Jun 15, 2026
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Anthropic Fable 5: The Full Backstory
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Leo walks the panel through the origins of Fable 5, starting with Mythos — the model Anthropic deemed too dangerous to release publicly because of its ability to find zero-day software exploits and potential bioweapon applications. Rather than release Mythos, Anthropic created Project Glasswing, distributing Mythos to 50 major companies including Microsoft to patch bugs, with Microsoft's record 200+ fix Patch Tuesday as apparent evidence of its power. Fable 5 is Mythos with safety layers: classifiers blocking cybersecurity and bioweapon queries, anti-distillation protections to stop Chinese firms from extracting its capabilities, and adversarial robustness statistics showing a jailbreak success rate of just 5.4% versus 83% for Claude Opus 4.6. Leo describes using the model himself to analyze a decade-old sales system, finding SQL injection flaws — and then noticing it silently downgrading to Opus 4.8 when queries triggered classifiers.
Anthropic's Fable 5 Shutdown: The Full Story
The Trump administration gave Anthropic 90 minutes to take its most advanced AI model offline, citing jailbreak reports from Amazon — Anthropic's own $13B investment partner. The company says it received no details about the actual threat, and disputes whether Amazon's finding was a true jailbreak at all.
1,000+ hours of red team testing
Anthropic conducted over 1,000 hours of red team testing on Fable 5 with a bug bounty program, and claimed no universal jailbreaks were found.
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