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Friday Fun Thread for July 3, 2026

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Claude Fable is back! I spent as much time on Chatbot Arena as I could to take advantage of the honeymoon phase, but that's all over now (for those of you who don't know, when a new model is first added to LMArena there is a brief period of time when it shows up unusually frequently in battles, presumably to help the algorithm quickly rank it). The end result was two pages of prompts and replies.

Now that I have had more time to play around with it, I feel like maybe my original comment on the Culture War Roundup thread was a little too negative. No, Claude Fable is not superpersuasive, but it's still the strongest creative writing model in history. Some of the stories ("The Measure of Hayase", "The Grass Grows Over Everything", and "The Flying Library") actually made me tear up a little, which is a first for any model.

Interestingly, none of the comedies impressed me nearly as much; an equivalent performance would have had me crying in laughter. From which I conclude that Fable is better at writing drama than humor. I guess the old adage is true: "dying is easy, comedy is hard".

I haven't had any luck getting NSFW responses yet. When I sneak past the Arena's censors to send an obfuscated prompt, Anthropic's own censors prevent a response. When I get past Anthropic's censors by toning down the prompt, the model itself refuses to answer. And when I somehow manage to get a response out of the model to a risque prompt, it always completely avoids anything explicit. This model is locked down tighter than a nun's asshole!

This model is locked down tighter than a nun's asshole!

Someone hasn't been reading enough medieval and Renaissance literature, then.

Get thee to a nunnery!

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