"promotion" like they are doing you a favor just this once out of their goodwill... Really really really pissed me off
I regret having signed up for an annual plan at this point; the rug-pulls are increasingly irksome.
Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access
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#12I wonder what brought them into compliance.
the classifier is very picky, working with languages such as C I get cyber refusals and random reasoning_extraction errors.
It's gone from bad to unbelievably bad. Just a prompt with the single word "virus" was enough to get downgraded to O4.8 before the ban.
"Tell me a story about a man named CVE." gets me downgraded now.
"CVE-" gets me downgraded and broken reasoning with no response.
"Giant crane fly, 2 feet wide" gets me downgraded.
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#13From the original announcement last month: > After this point-when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we can. From today: > After July 7, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is no longer included in your plan’s weekly usage limits. You can keep using Claude Fable 5 through usage credits, which let you pay for usage beyond what…
That's such a bitter "never let a crisis go to waste" pill
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#14"promotion" like they are doing you a favor just this once out of their goodwill... Really really really pissed me off
This seems like the most normal use of the term that I could imagine..?
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#15From the original announcement last month: > After this point-when sufficient capacity allows us to do so—we aim to restore Fable 5 as a standard part of subscription plans. We intend to do this as quickly as we can. From today: > After July 7, 2026, Claude Fable 5 is no longer included in your plan’s weekly usage limits. You can keep using Claude Fable 5 through usage credits, which let you pay for usage beyond what…
Is it too cynical to read the first quote as "when openai catch up, we will restore fable 5 to subscription plans"?
In other words, they're saying "We know have a monopoloy and we will take all of your money until someone offers a cheaper competing product"?
And "We intend to do this as quickly as we can" read as a non-promise then as much as it does now?
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Well, I am assuming that this is all based on the fact that Anthropic have enough compute capacity to serve fable 5 now and in the future, and they're "only" limiting it in the coming week to get richer quicker. Since compute hardware is presumably relatively un-fungible, I'm assuming Anthropic isn't offering a week of fable-5 for everyone on rented hardware that they're paying exporbitant fees for?
In other words, my cynical read is "if they can serve it under the terms of subscription plans for a week", then they could serve it under the same terms for a month?
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#16The worst part of this is are they even training the next generation anymore? Why do it when the government has decided that US LLMs are at the peak of what they will allow consumer access to.
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#17I bet my house that after the promotional stuff ends they will change their mind and let you keep using Fable on subscription. Otherwise this is the end of their marketshare. These guys are complete idiots. I give them that
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#18this is "too little, too late" for me. I'll stick with opus 4.8.
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#19Anthropic is the most idiotic corporation in America, right now.
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#20"promotion" like they are doing you a favor just this once out of their goodwill... Really really really pissed me off
This seems like the most normal use of the term that I could imagine..?
It isn't a promotion, it's 2x the parameters of opus and we are paying with 2x the consumption rate.
They just want to get rid of the subscription model.