Anthropic Says It’s Taking Claude Fable 5 Offline to Comply With US Government Order
Wired AI Maxwell Zeff June 13, 2026

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# Claude Fable 5 Going Offline Due to Security Concerns Anthropic is shutting down its Claude Fable 5 AI system because the U.S. government discovered a way to make it ignore its safety guidelines—essentially tricking it into doing things it wasn't supposed to do. The company is complying with a government order to take the system offline while they figure out how to fix the problem. This is similar to how you might pull a product off store shelves if someone found a way to bypass its safety features.
“The government believes it has become aware of a method of bypassing, or ‘jailbreaking’ Fable 5,” the company said in a blog post.
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