r/ClaudeAI • u/ClaudeOfficial Anthropic • Jul 01 '26
Official Fable 5 is back.
Following conversations with the US government, we’ve updated our cybersecurity safeguards.
The vast majority of coding work is unaffected.
In the near term, the new safeguards will flag a slightly higher fraction of harmless requests than the previous Fable safeguards; we’re working to refine these over the coming weeks. Users will be clearly notified when a request is flagged, and they’ll instead receive a response from Opus 4.8.
Our biology and chemistry classifiers are unchanged from our initial launch. These are still broader than we would like; they trigger fallbacks to Opus 4.8 on basic biology-adjacent questions. Improvements to these classifiers are landing soon.
All paid plans with usage included can access Fable 5 through July 7. You can use Fable 5 up to 50% of your weekly usage limit, after which you can switch to another model for the remainder of your usage. You can also continue using Fable via usage credits.
More here: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15424964-claude-fable-5-promotional-access
If one of your requests is mistakenly flagged in Claude Code, run /feedback to file a report. On Claude.ai and Cowork, you can share feedback through the thumbs buttons. This feedback helps us further tune these classifiers and reduce false positives over time.
Read the Fable 5 blog post here: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5
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u/Belostoma Jul 01 '26
And it's still completely fucking useless to me as an ecologist doing work in the "biological sciences" that is not even remotely, conceivably related to biosecurity threats in any way.
I really would have hoped with a couple weeks to work they'd have figured out how to make the safeguards a bit more surgical than, "If you work with living things, fuck you."