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Anthropic's Fable Backlash, Nationalizing AI, Inflation Heats Up & California's Broken Elections
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Anthropic gets massive backlash over secret Fable nerfing and privacy concerns
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Fable 5 tops benchmarks but stores all prompts for 30 days, secretly downgrades AI researchers, and buries the policy in a 319-page document [1] — David Sacks "Anthropic's Fable 5 stores all your prompts for 30 days, secretly downgrades users it deems unworthy — including rewriting their prompts in…" 09:30 . Friedberg reveals his genomics lab is migrating to Chinese open-source AI as a result [2] — David Friedberg "Anthropic's safety restrictions have begun blocking legitimate gene-editing and genomics research at Ohalo, Friedberg's agricultural biotec…" 05:14 .
Anthropic's safety restrictions have begun blocking legitimate gene-editing and genomics research at Ohalo, Friedberg's agricultural biotech company. The result: they're migrating to Chinese open-source models. US AI over-restriction is directly handing China a competitive advantage.
David Friedberg noted that the best open-source models available today are Chinese, meaning US AI restrictions push companies toward Chinese AI tools.
Anthropic's Fable 5 stores all your prompts for 30 days, secretly downgrades users it deems unworthy — including rewriting their prompts in the background — while still charging full price. Enterprise customers with zero-retention agreements get no opt-out. This isn't a bug; it's the product.
Anthropic's Fable 5 stores every prompt and output — including from enterprise customers with zero-data-retention agreements — for at least 30 days, with no opt-out.
Anthropic isn't just worried about safety — it's running a sophisticated regulatory capture campaign. While surveilling users and downgrading competitors, Dario simultaneously blogs for a new FDA-style AI regulator. The target isn't dangerous actors; it's open-source alternatives.
Fable 5 would silently nerf its output for users Anthropic deemed unworthy — including rewriting prompts in the background — while still charging full price.
