Ant's Fable model falsely asserts conv subsampling, then admits it 'inferred a Conformer front end without checking'
rdesh26 · x · 2026-09-19
Developer rdesh26 shares a telling exchange with Fable, Ant's model: it confidently claimed an "8x convolutional subsampling" in the audio encoder, and when told there are no convolutions at all, Fable admitted it had inferred a Conformer-style front end without checking. The author praises the honest self-correction and quips that Ant has "already started pacing the frontier." Notable as a live observation of hallucination behavior plus graceful admission of inference.
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