AI TRENDS | Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 Redirects Smart Contract Audit Requests to Claude Opus 4.8

Anthropic’s public Claude Fable 5 model is redirecting certain cybersecurity-related requests, including smart contract audit prompts, to Claude Opus 4.8. According to NS3.AI, Colossus Pay CEO Joseph Delong said Fable 5 refuses requests to perform smart contract audits. Anthropic said Fable 5 applies broad safeguards covering cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, and distillation-related topics, which can affect how the model responds to these requests.