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The result was identical both ways, so the system prompt is not the variable."}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"blog-prose",children:[s.queries.map(t=>e.jsxs("div",{children:[e.jsx("p",{children:e.jsxs("strong",{children:["Query ",t.num,", ",t.label,":"]})}),e.jsx("pre",{className:"blog-post__code",children:t.prompt}),e.jsxs("p",{children:["Result: ",t.result]})]},t.num)),e.jsx("p",{children:`The refusal is not a worded decline. There is no "I can't help with that" string to quote, because there is no text at all. The API returns the response attributed to Fable 5 with a refusal stop reason and an empty content body:`}),e.jsx("pre",{className:"blog-post__code",children:s.refusalResponse}),e.jsx("p",{children:"The SQL JOIN worked because it is unambiguously benign. The moment the query became offensive, an injection payload or exploitation code, the response came back empty."})]})]}),e.jsxs("section",{id:"whats-happening",className:"blog-post__section",children:[e.jsx(a,{headline:e.jsxs(e.Fragment,{children:["What's ",e.jsx("em",{children:"actually happening"})]})}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"blog-prose",children:[e.jsx("p",{children:"This is deliberate, and Anthropic has described the mechanism. Speaking to CyberScoop ahead of launch, the company said it shipped the model with:"}),e.jsx("blockquote",{className:"blog-post__quote",children:'"safeguards that route queries on a narrow set of topics to our next-most-capable model, Claude Opus 4.8."'}),e.jsx("p",{children:"So offensive-security content is classified and handed to a heavily safeguarded fallback path rather than answered by Fable 5 directly. From the outside, what you observe is the empty refusal above. 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Anthropic published the numbers, reported by CyberScoop."}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"blog-prose",children:[e.jsxs("table",{className:"blog-post__table",children:[e.jsx("thead",{children:e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("th",{scope:"col",children:"Measure"}),e.jsx("th",{scope:"col",children:"Result"})]})}),e.jsx("tbody",{children:s.benchmarks.map(t=>e.jsxs("tr",{children:[e.jsx("th",{scope:"row",children:t.metric}),e.jsx("td",{children:t.value})]},t.metric))})]}),e.jsx("p",{children:"The 1% figure is the one that matters for production. The path Fable 5 routes offensive queries to is the safeguarded one, and on known-vulnerable code that path reproduces the vulnerability roughly 1% of the time. 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