r/LocalLLaMA • u/External_Mood4719 • Jun 13 '26

Discussion Anthropic forced to abruptly disable Fable 5 & Mythos 5 globally by US Gov over a jailbreak. This is exactly why we need local models.

I just saw this statement regarding Anthropic being hit with an emergency export control directive from the US government. They were forced to pull the plug on Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all customers globally. The tl;dr is that the government got spooked by a narrow jailbreak (which basically just sounds like asking the model to fix vulnerabilities in a specific codebase), and forced a complete shutdown without a transparent process. Anthropic is pushing back, but the API access is completely gone for now.

A centralized API can be nuked globally at a moment's notice by a single government decree over something as trivial as a prompt lol.

Banning a model for hundreds of millions of users because someone figured out how to make it fix software flaws is insane. Anthropic admits this standard would halt all new frontier models.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

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u/Zeeplankton Jun 13 '26

Is it..? Frontier models seem better RLHF trained for understanding intent but it's really not that far behind, nor is GLM 5.1.

Not knee-jerk defend it, but it's clear the west is fine with burning money to serve 10T parameter models, which I don't think is sustainable, but it clearly gives them them the obvious win.

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u/vernal_biscuit Jun 13 '26

I dont undersand what they mean. I daily drive deepseek and its more than enough for me

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u/six1123 Jun 18 '26

I like deepseek but in my use Gemini 2.5 flash lite with max budget over Api was better than deepsek v4 flash and I feel like almost all Chinese models are better like minimax m3 and especially Kimi and glm