Anthropic's Fable is TOO POWERFUL

Anthropic has been talking up their world-threateningly powerful new Mythos model, suggesting it needs to be held back from the public because we cretins can't be trusted with it. So they gave us a nerfed version called 'Fable', but the US government got tipped off, said "Not today, champ" and forced Anthropic to take it back down. James and Raph come together this week to discuss why this all happened, the marketing of AI as big and scary, and also plastic in your balls. If you like the pod, chuck us a review on your podcast player of choice, or go to downround.net (https://www.downround.net) to sign up for PREMIUM to get ad-free listening PLUS an extra episode every week.  See omnystudio.com/listener (https://omnystudio.com/listener) for privacy information.

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