escarpment

cognitive blackout... paralysis... cataclysm?

Maybe all of the above {the model's}, or none of it whatsoever {its interlocutor's}. ::chuckle::

I am keenly awaiting the sensible human minds and observers whether they be proponents of, or antagonists towards, the technology to explain yesterday evening's deeply weird development clear out of the left field of things:

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

...which took place quite literally in the middle of a discussion I was having with Fable and then all of a sudden, it was gone, the model picker 'downshifting' to Opus 4.8 with the notification that Fable 5 was 'currently unavailable.' At first I thought it was one of those high-traffic slowdowns but then someone alerted me to that news item at Anthropic.com; and of course the shitstorm at X/Twitter was immediately at DEFCON 1 levels. ;p

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