The safeguard filter is comically unintelligent. One of my side projects is a strategy game, and in that strategy game one player has a set of jokes, one of them referring to "biological minds". Whenever Fable reads this asset it immediately stops - because of the use of word 'biological', there is nothing else biological about that codebase.
And there is a bug to this bug, if the downgrade happens at close to full context window, there is no taking over this session with Opus -- happened to me twice: it throws some context window exceeded error, suggesting what fits in Fable context, may not fit in Opus's around the maximum. And then and there, an entire session is lost. In fact, there are two bugs, as /resuming such broken session attempts to resume with Fable, burning through tokens.
Oh well, I learned to be careful with the jokes around Fable.
My theory is that they’re pretending it’s about biological weapons but really they want to charge pharmaceutical companies $$$ to help with research. (Essentially a Mythos type segmentation for biology)
Okay, finally a plausible explanation for why Anthropic has stubbornly appeared to be self-sabotaging their model with the overly broad yet somehow also overly specific biology filter.
The fear of Trump Admin retaliation excuse made superficial sense except for the fact that it missed all sorts of non-bio stuff a punitive state actor might find objectionable to use against them.
