Asking Claude Fable a Complexity Question Gets Downgraded to Opus
fortnow · x · 2026-07-06
A computational complexity theorist asked Claude Fable about 'Range Avoidance' and the model downgraded and routed it to Opus. The author jokes they didn't expect computational complexity to be a 'security risk,' reflecting routing and downgrade behavior for certain topics.
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