💀 The government didn't fear the model getting hacked.
It feared the model *being* the hacker.
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Fable 5 found zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and every major browser.
Autonomously.
The oldest bug it surfaced was 27 years old — buried in OpenBSD, a system built specifically for security.
It didn't just find flaws. It wrote working exploits.
Remote code execution. Full root access. Unauthenticated. From anywhere on the internet.
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Here's the part most coverage misses:
Anthropic didn't train those capabilities in.
They *emerged.*
A side effect of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy.
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The same intelligence that patches software can destroy it.
The capability is identical. The intent is the only variable.
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The government's case rested on a narrow jailbreak — one technique, one context, non-universal.
Anthropic's counter: the same jailbreak works on GPT-5.5.
No export control on that.
🤔 If the threat is the capability and not the company — why is only one model offline?
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⚠️ Pulled. Not because it failed.
Because it worked too well.
What does it mean when a model gets shut down not for its errors — but for its accuracy?
1️⃣ The government acted correctly
2️⃣ This sets a dangerous precedent
3️⃣ The capability already exists elsewhere — this changes nothing
Not financial advice. DYOR.