Fable 5 leaked chain-of-thought in web interface, and the rambling is kind of unsettling and cute
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Fable 5's chain-of-thought reasoning was accidentally exposed in its web interface, revealing a rambling but endearing internal monologue.
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@FinanceYF5: A netizen said they saw Fable 5's unfiltered "inner monologue" — instead of a clean answer, the web interface leaked the raw chain-of-thought text. The content wasn't normal language, just fragments like "DATA DATA DATA", "GRRR", "GAAAH", "PHEW". The poster guessed it's the model's own "internal language…
Netizens discovered that Fable 5 outputted an unfiltered chain-of-thought in the web interface, containing fragmented internal language like "DATA DATA DATA", "GRRR", etc., suspected to be the model's token-efficient communication method.
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