What happened with Fable is basically what I feared when they announced those restrictions. They took the shitty Opus CBRN filter and made it even worse.
I pity the fools trying to use Anthropic AIs for anything biotech.
Claude is still the best IMO, but it feels like its most frustrating and grating aspects are not down to the model’s abilities, but the increasingly heavy hand of Anthropic expressing itself within the model. Fable’s comically useless responses almost seem like a cynical marketing tweak.
“This model is so powerful we basically can’t let it do anything. How terrifying! We need more money to make it stronger. Now do you see why we should be the ones who write the regulations? We’re the Good Guy AI Company Who Will Never Ever Ever Be Unethical after all.”
As this entity gains more ground, their models become increasingly annoying to use and their little act becomes more transparent. The whole “I’m-just a befuddled ethically-minded AI researcher who is perturbed by the power that I unwittingly discovered and I must warn the world” thing? Yeah fuck off. Your twee pandering to naïve nerds and cynical technocrats is nauseating and ordinary people can smell it a mile away. Completely repellent leadership who put up red flags to anyone left with a working ability to read between the lines of both spoken language and body language. The tech company equivalent of a sex predator who plays as the nice guy. Gross.
Nobody likes these companies and their models are annoying, but we’re going to put up with playing middle manager to these obnoxious programs because our jobs depend on it now, and these products are still the best on the market.
A breakthrough in tools that facilitate user-owned models and infrastructure is desperately needed for the sake of our dignity and sanity, if nothing else.
I like Anthropic's work, and I would be the first to argue against all the usual "it's all PR" whine. But there is a limit. And whoever made those fucking filters needs to be fired out of a cannon into the sun.
Yesterday Fable rejected commenting on poetry because it had anatomy lines like:
got anotha round of acetylcholine from da boss.
Telling models to respond in the style of Wikipedia is one of the best ways to make their output bearable in my experience (for chat models, not agents)
https://tylereaves.github.io/uk-rail-map/
This is the result of probably a few hundred round trips. The really interesting part of the problem is keeping it both relatively true to real geometry, while greatly exaggerating it horizontally so you can actually see the individual running lines/sidings, like a signaling schematic.
Your Scotland map shows towns without rail (although some had rail previously, like Callander, Aberfeldy), it prefers insignificant (population-wise) places while ignoring the larger cities next to it (Scone instead of Perth, Bannockburn instead of Stirling, Inverness is missing, Dundee is missing, Aberdeen is missing). All these places are drawn on the map, but not labelled.
All this clearly shows to me how bad it is. Yes it makes it look pretty, but given your task, I would have expected to give you meaningful map labelling.
Something basic like this would get you a long way:
0. cluster population centers into commonly known cities (i.e. show London instead of Islington or Walhamstrow)
1. display names of the top 10 population centers in the UK
2. display towns with stations (if crowded prioritize termination points and junctions, and prioritize larger places over smaller places)
Compared to AC, 3rd Rail DC is cheaper to install, especially as a retrofit (Overhead wires require bigger tunnels, and increased spacing around tracks for the masts). Downside is that it's not really great for speeds above about 60-70mph, as well as being a bit of a pedestrian hazard. (Ever the one about not peeing on the rails so you don't get shocked? That's 3rd rail DC.)
For the Southern, with it's mostly short routes with many stops, electricfiation was a pretty obvious win, and doing 3rd rail made sense because they could do it quickly and cheaply.
In contrast, the northern routes were electrified muuuch later, after steam had gone away. The main East Coast Mainline from London up to Newscastle and on to Edinburgh wasn't fully electrified until 1991. By the '60s and '70s, with train speeds increasing to 80mph and up, overhead AC was the clear winner.
If you look closely there are a few exceptions - the Merseyrail network in Liverpool is DC. Built 1970s, but using some existing underwater tunnels, and slow speed commuter. Then running ESE from London you have the high speed AC lines leading to the Channel tunnel. Well spotted, the trend generally is quite distinct.
The successes I have had with the model were strictly worse than output from deepseek v4 pro on the exact same task.
I dont understand. This is just hyperbole right? The outputs are basically infinite and wikipedia most certainly isnt infinite.
If the model refuses to output, then it's actually finite, zero.
And even if they did, it would be useless if it's buried in useless data and your chances or pulling it are effectively zero.
This is regardless of the general discussion, just pointing that your argument isn't solid.
The claim is absurd.