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Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by airhangerf15 » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

pegasus wrote: post #601

ozozozd wrote: post #576

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This is a strange plea for optimism. Sincerely or not, judgement is yours, Dario has been begging for regulation. He has been talking about how Claude models are distilled by foreign adversaries. And now the regulation is here. What makes you think this situation that the CEO of Anthropic is asking for it temporary? Do you not believe Dario was sincere?

Do you sincerely believe Dario wants Fable to be restricted to US citizens only?

No, he wants regulatory capture. I think if the mask ever came off, he'd want the government to come in and crush Hugging Face, Civitai and any other distribution of open weight models, forcing everyone to go through an authorized provider like Antrhopic, under some bullshit about everything else being "too dangerous." He's no better than Sam Alternative-Man and any media disagreement is likely just smoke and mirrors to make it seem like they're two players in the field when in reality, it's getting incredibly cramped.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by airhangerf15 » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 9:24 PM UTC

gcanyon wrote: post #116

If this is what it takes to get access to Fable I'll be sad, but go along with it. Fable was (at least in my testing) remarkably good.

You could go back to using your brain to code instead. My company pays for Claude, but we're on personal plans linked to corporate e-mail and company credit cards. If they require this from me, I'll ask my boss just to cancel or switch us to a business plan.

I do use it more these days, and it has helped me get a lot of grunt work out of the way, but I do noticeably realize it's killing my cognitive software engineering abilities.

It bothers me at many levels right now.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by airhangerf15 » Mon, Jun 29, 2026, 9:25 PM UTC

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #348

On the bright side maybe less people will use AI as a therapist if every thought they dump into it is now associated to their ID and home address

It's really not a huge jump for your prompts to lead to an arrest for wrong think with this model. Europe may even require it if someone asks about the 6 million.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by furyofantares » Wed, Jul 01, 2026, 3:28 AM UTC

root_axis wrote: post #556

furyofantares wrote: post #493

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Polymarket gives 32% chance the ban on Fable is lifted this month. Even if it's never lifted, probably GPT 5.6 will be better than Opus 4.8 and they won't hype it up as too dangerous to release before releasing it. Open models will catch up to Opus 4.8 and state of the art will, most likely, continue to get better. It won't be long before "better than Opus 4.8" is not a big deal.

> Polymarket gives 32% chance the ban on Fable is lifted this month. Totally meaningless.

It's June 30 and the ban has been lifted, I'm gonna say Polymarket's 32% chance of the ban being lifted in June was far and away a better guess than bemoaning that non-Americans will never access an American model better than Opus 4.8.

Re: Identity verification on Claude

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Post by root_axis » Fri, Jul 03, 2026, 8:03 PM UTC

furyofantares wrote: post #764

root_axis wrote: post #556

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Polymarket gives 32% chance the ban on Fable is lifted this month. Totally meaningless.

It's June 30 and the ban has been lifted, I'm gonna say Polymarket's 32% chance of the ban being lifted in June was far and away a better guess than bemoaning that non-Americans will never access an American model better than Opus 4.8.

Polymarket's 32% wasn't "a guess", it's just noise with zero connection to the actual likelihood of the event.