This shows yet again how this limitation was never about "safety" but about Anthropic doing stuff just because they thought they can.
I am increasingly sceptical Anthropic really cares about safety, and not just their business interests (limiting competition where they can)
NEW: Anthropic is walking back Claude Fable 5's policy to covertly degrade performance for competing AI researchers, after facing fierce backlash.
“We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible,” Anthropic tells WIRED. “We made the wrong tradeoff and we apologize for not getting the balance right.”