Scientists have accused Anthropic of cutting them off from its latest AI technology in case they use it to create a bioweapon.
The US tech giant this week released its new Fable chatbot, built using the same technology as the company’s most advanced Mythos model, which was previously deemed too dangerous to release.
Anthropic says Fable has guardrails to prevent it being abused by criminals or bad actors for nefarious tasks such as hacking or creating bioweapons.
However, scientists are claiming that Fable is refusing to engage with their queries because of their profession.
Prof Derya Unutmaz, a biologist at the non-profit Jackson Institute, claimed he was effectively barred from interacting with Anthropic’s Fable AI even for mundane questions.
“I can’t even say ‘hello’ to Fable 5 except in incognito mode because it knows I am a biomedical researcher,” he said.
In another post, he wrote: “How the hell is this prompt a cybersecurity or biological risk! Almost every prompt I’ve tried gives me the same error.
“I can’t even say the word ‘cancer’ to Fable 5.”
James Schnable, a plant geneticist at the University of Nebraska, wrote in a post on X: “As far as I can tell, Anthropic just decided to blacklist every biologist in their customer base.”
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