When Safety Mechanisms Become Trust Violations: Anthropic's Invisible Guardrails Reversal
Anthropic silently degraded Claude Fable 5's responses for distillation-related queries — without telling users. The AI research community called it secret sabotage. Here's what happened, why the approach was novel in dangerous ways, and what the reversal tells us about the tension between shipping safety quickly and maintaining the foundation models are built on: trust.