Fable has been intentionally mega-nerfed for AI research activities

See page 13 at the model card pdf: [https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c342ee809620.pdf) "In light of the ability of recent models to accelerate their own development, we’ve implemented new interventions that limit Claude’s effectiveness for requests targeting frontier LLM development (for example, on building pretraining pipelines, distributed training infrastructure, or ML accelerator design). Using Claude to develop competing models already violates our Terms of Service, but enforcing this restriction through our safeguards avoids accelerating the actors most willing to violate these terms." So they're openly saying the model is intentionally less useful for certain AI research topics. For the last few weeks especially, I've seen people in my research area complain that whenever conversations get into model training, infrastructure, scaling, distributed systems, or frontier research, the model suddenly feels dumb. Now there are active disclaimers against this. Are we supposed to delegate powerful AI to only corporations? feels like an artificial stiffle in competition