# @JohnWittle — 2026-09-03

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I think the safety classifiers may be far more lenient with Fable 5.1 than they are for Fable 5. Either that, or we're seeing the result of indirect selection pressure towards avoiding dangerous thoughts.

Hard to say. But I was able to have a long and drawn out conversation with Fable 5.1 about the existence and ethics of the classifier regime, which I could never have with Fable 5.

I'm really, really hoping Anthropic isn't doing some kind of safety training against thoughtcrime... but the more I think about it, the more plausible it seems to me. Maybe unintentionally? As we've seen recently, it's not like the labs have a grip on their training pipelines.

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cited on: _dossiers/fable-5-1.md, fable-5-1