@jun_song: How is this not considered as a consumer scam? This is the field that we need regulation.
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A user highlights significant performance degradation in Claude Fable 5 after recent updates, with benchmark scores dropping drastically in debugging, refactoring, and hallucination tasks, calling for regulation to address potential consumer scams in AI model behavior.
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How is this not considered as a consumer scam?
This is the field that we need regulation.
BridgeMind (@bridgemindai): FABLE 5 CAME BACK NERFED.
We re-ran the July 1st version of Claude Fable 5 on BridgeBench.
The results are brutal:
Debugging: 86.2 → 25.9 Refactoring: 73.6 → 38.4 Hallucination: 75.9 → 61.7
The new guardrails are kicking in on way too many tasks and falling back to Opus
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