Incredible. They’re speed-running enshittification, but they forgot the step where they make something that almost everyone wants to use.
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2026
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The Trump admin put them in the crosshairs when they refused to play along with the DoW.
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Well fable was interesting until the US government basically blocked it for the whole world.
Was it really or is this all a publicity stunt to make it seem like it's more capable than it is?
The government is acting on the PR fed to them by pro-government* Anthropic lobbyists
* "Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters" - Dario Amodei
It will be interesting to see if this is just a prereq for certain models like Fable, or if they roll this out more widely.
There are certainly some governments around the world that have considered requiring age verification for chatbots. Not sure any such laws are already in effect.
I don't even want to express an opinion whether I find that worse or less bad than doing so for social media.