#classifiers

Anthropic's safety classifiers for its Fable model are overly sensitive, frequently flagging benign requests as violations and downgrading them to a less capable model, causing frustration among users. This undermines the utility of Fable for legitimate tasks like code review or data analysis, and raises serious privacy concerns due to Anthropic's policy of retaining flagged inputs and outputs for up to two years. The classifiers seem to overreact to terms related to cybersecurity, biology, or jailbreaking, often passing requests to Opus 4.8 even for trivial topics; users report that even medical physics questions get waved off.