Maybe try DeepSeek. China now holds 4 of the 5 top spots for open weight benchmarks. Obviously the issue isn't national security. It's Anthropic's lawsuit against the Department of War.
-- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] On Sun, Jun 14, 2026, 6:14 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > Not only can I not rule that out, but in retrospect it is quite > plausible. Although I was careful to use Fable 5 initially, I wasn't > paying close attention to which model I was interacting with after that. > Therefore, the downgrade may have happened sometime between starting the > session and later on restarting it which is when I noticed the downgrade. > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM Matt Mahoney <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Were you using Fable 5 as Anthropic was forced to shut it down because >> the US government issued export controls on it as payback for refusing to >> let the military use it for weapons and surveillance? >> >> >> https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/us-export-control-order-forces-anthropic-to-disable-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5-worldwide >> >> -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] >> >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2026, 9:49 AM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ALERT: I started this conversation with Fable. Anthropic downgraded me >>> during it which may explain the moronic response that elided the critical >>> distinction between model generation and model selection. Such downgrades >>> are Anthropic POLICY when the topic is frontier AI research. >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 7:37 PM James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> ...See where this conversation with Anthropic ended up: >>>> >>>> https://claude.ai/share/8ad79e30-9cc6-4d0a-9082-bf800bb2045e >>>> >>>> *Artificial General Intelligence List <https://agi.topicbox.com/latest>* > / AGI / see discussions <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi> + > participants <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/members> + > delivery options <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription> > Permalink > <https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b182c3fd14f61e9-M626a15f0d4128db53bd87d37> > ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T5b182c3fd14f61e9-M8b44a600cb3f62f0ed545797 Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
