# "They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline

> Source: <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/15/axios-clashes-anthropics/#atom-everything>
> Published: 2026-06-15 14:57:33+00:00

["They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline](https://www.axios.com/2026/06/15/anthropic-white-house-fable-mythos)

Logan Graham, Dave Orr and blog favorite [Nicholas Carlini](https://simonwillison.net/tags/nicholas-carlini/) are supposedly meeting with the Commerce Department today in D.C. Good luck to them!

This closing notes doesn't give me much optimism that we'll be getting Fable back any time soon:

The bottom line: One option is to make sure Anthropic's models can't be jailbroken — though perfect jailbreak resistance[may be]impossible.Absent that, a source familiar with the administration's thinking said it may simply come down to an attitude fix where, instead of feeling dismissed, "everyone feels safe, secure and happy."

I wonder if Anthropic ever successfully addressed the class of attacks describe in the [Universal and Transferable Adversarial Attacks on Aligned Language Models](https://llm-attacks.org/) paper from 2023.

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