Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 • Hacker News Board

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by mvkel » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

This is marketing.

1. Release fable, highly nerfed and limited 2. See the compute capacity limiter pegged day after day 3. Lobby to the government, claiming ai is super unsafe and not aligned and they must do something 4. Government "forces" anth to turn off 5. Anth takes the pressure off of compute capacity, and gets to blame it on the govt

Like you're telling me fable is somehow an order of magnitude better than GPT 5.5 to the point where it compromises national security, despite evals and anecdotes saying otherwise? Nah.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by cgio » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:08 AM UTC

Has anyone else noticed the weekly utilisation dropping to 0% around this change? Mine was about 36 before and dropped a bit before disabling fable.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by hutubutu » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

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Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by GreenSalem » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

Time to switch to open weight Chinese models.

Any company that uses Magaland LLMs should be aware of the very real Trump related risk.

What happens if the LLM your firm runs on is disabled tomorrow, because Trump wakes up feeling slightly annoyed...

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by opsnooperfax » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

“Uncle Sam, these new AI are dangerous. We really need legislation to stop irresponsible use of AI.”

“OK, Dario. Let’s start with you.”

“No! I meant regulations for other people!”

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by bridgettegraham » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

this is just the US government bullying everyone wherever they can because they "are the bestest government that has ever goverend" ugh puke. the US govt and its leader is a typical schoolyard bully and I wish someone could stop that bully. i hate that the govts have so much power.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by austin-cheney » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

Does this mean an entire generation of developers effectively stops doing work, at least temporarily?

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by sheeshkebab » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

Well, it was great while it lasted - I had fable build me a bunch of stuff this week that opus was just screwing up too much and could never finish. Good thing there are plenty of choices now even if US gov fucks up US AI.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by ribosometronome » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

rileymat2 wrote: post #255

I am a bit surprised they can’t make serious free speech arguments.

Surely they can and will but it's Friday and immediately complying generates headlines.

Re: Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

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Post by narrator » Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 2:10 AM UTC

Anthropic has made the suppression of advanced technology a mainstream issue. This is an exceptionally interesting development because the refrain from the skeptics, was "Why wouldn't they release the advanced technology if they could make all that money?" and "Once people knew about the technology they'd never be able to stop it." Well here we are with a verifiable demonstrable suppressed advanced technology.