Prompting Claude to Pretend It's Fable 5 Doesn't Unlock Hidden AI Powers
Source: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3171929/i-asked-claude-to-imagine-it-was-fable-it-didnt-go-well.html
Executive Briefing
- Reveals that Claude Opus and Sonnet refused role-play entirely, citing honesty over performance
- Shows Claude Haiku partially engaged but still acknowledged conceptual limits of the Riemann Hypothesis
- Confirms ChatGPT and Gemini also failed to solve the 167-year-old, $1M prize math problem
- Demonstrates that renaming an AI model does not unlock new capabilities or bypass existing limitations
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