The US Government, in an abrupt order, has asked Claude-maker Anthropic to cut access to its just launched Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models for all foreign nationals â whether inside or outside the US. Interestingly, this also includes Anthropicâs own employees who are not US nationals.
In an early morning statement, Anthropic said, âThe 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 employeesâ.
According to Anthropic, while the Government directive wasnât very specific on the reasoning behind the order, it did notify Anthropic of possible method of bypassing, or âjailbreakingâ Fable 5. The AI company verified the same and was able to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass.
Anthropic further added, âTo date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our understanding is that one potential jailbreak was shared with the government.â
And even though the company did comply with the directive as required by law, Anthropic maintains that it âdisagreesâ that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people.
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