It increases the gap between the rich and the poor. You think indie devs and individuals have the resources to pay per token? The direction Anthropic is taking is one that leads to more inequality, only this time it's intelligence inequality between small and large corps.
Anthropic also intentionally crippled the model when it comes to doing AI research. And then Karpathy (an AI researcher who defected to Anthropic) has the audacity to praise the model?
These decisions were already made by Anthropic (a company that actively wants AI regulation and banning of open source models) BEFORE the USG request to take down the model, so they can't blame the politics for this.
* Earthly reasons:
We were originally going to get 100% usage from June 9th to June 23rd (15 days)
Instead we got 100% usage for 3 days and 50% usage for 7.
And it's nerfed on day 1:
> ... we're redeploying the model with a new set of classifiers to target and block more cybersecurity tasks. In the near term, some routine tasks like coding and debugging will fall back to Opus 4.8
If I want Fable-class of models, there's already GPT-5.5-pro (not accessible in Codex, for some reason) which I can use with my subscription. Nothing about Fable
But the conflict of interest is plain to outsiders. And they seem to lack skill in working with public institutions to create consistent safety legislation. Any regulations they advocate for just seem like rent seeking.
We just need people with expertise in government. Not Anthropic/OpenAI making these dumb decisions.
OpenAI has also held the same stance in the past, hence the original plan to make everything "open".
Now ChatGPT and the $20/month ($10/month in developing countries) are a good way to make these tools accessible. Anthropic did this. This was fine. It hurts the poor to pay, but they can still pay for it.
But the new proposal to remove subscriptions is worrying.
Fable itself is worrying. It was terribly communicated to the media. It seems more like a model below Opus which is designed to run for several days straight, effectively replacing human oversight.
It's not cheap because it's not designed to be cheap. It's built to be cheaper than humans.
I've found Claude and GPT have converged again. The LLMs are bound to be commoditized, in 6 months, some open-source LLM will step in.
GLM 5.2 can run for hours. Fable was supposedly designed for something that takes a human up to weeks. It's also more for straightforward tasks, so it'll do poorly in tasks that other models are great at.