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Esto puede parecer un poco cansino, pero es que llevo semanas viendo que en mi sector la conversación va solo de inteligencia artificial: los modelos, las peleas entre fabricantes, el último anuncio. Y a mí me interesa, que conste, porque he abrazado la IA generativa sin ningún complejo y hasta la he defendido cuando ha tocado. Pero luego miro mi lista de tareas y me doy cuenta de que al final los clientes siguen queriendo más o menos lo mismo que hace un año, hace tres o hace ocho: optimizar su negocio, vender más, llegar a usuarios nuevos, que la innovación deje de ser una intención y se convierta en un hecho. Y eso no se parece tanto a la conversación que recorre el sector estos días. Me quedo con una duda que no termino de resolver, y es si la voz del mercado es de verdad la voz de los clientes, porque me temo que a veces circula opinión publicada haciéndose pasar por opinión pública, y conviene ser fino para no confundir lo que más se dice con lo que más se necesita. Al final la receta que mejor me funciona es la de siempre, volver a los básicos. En una empresa de servicios como la mía eso tiene un nombre muy concreto: atención al cliente, rápida, flexible y orientada a resultados. La tecnología es un medio, no el encargo. Me quedan, como casi siempre, más preguntas que respuestas. Pero la dirección la tengo bastante clara. También os digo que me gustaría saber si estoy solo en esto o resulta que somos más quienes pensamos algo así, pero no lo hacemos explícito.

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

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: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…