the government is starting to view advanced ai models just the way they view nuclear weapons, advanced chips and all
the concern right noe is not that the AI is evil, but that an advanced and capable model can dramatically increase the productivity of skilled people including hackers, illegal military organizations, and foreign governments.
the United States government's major concern revolves around a jailbreak that allegedly allowed Fable 5 to assist more effectively with software vulnerability discovery. the governments worry that such models could become a force multiplier for cyber attacks.
the directive is targeted towards foreign nationals rather than all users.
This suggests the concern is less about ordinary consumers and more about strategic competitors.
analysts believe AI will be one of the most important economic and military technologies of this century.
countries are racing to gain advantages because AI could impact the defense, finance and other sectors in soo many ways which will lead to significant economic growth in the long run. hence the government's worry.
while anthropic has outrightly told the United States that " No AI is perfectly jail break proof " and restricting the access to just United States is easier said than done, they went on to disable the whole model until they can come up with a proper solution that aligns to what the government wants.
are we going to see fable 5 and Mythos 5 again?
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement:
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