The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

Fable 5 is nuts. Any designer can now just prompt it to generate high level landing pages, shove it in their portfolio, post on all the job sites, and have a portfolio that is just about as impressive as the top level designers. What will this do to the industry? Econ 101: high supply, same demand == lower prices. Great for consumers, bad for suppliers (designers). What else is left for UI/UX'ers who rely on an income? Well, this is going to naturally force THE MOST CREATIVE UI/UX'ers to push the boundaries of what's possible on the web today. I'm talking next-level, creative UI's that are purposefully built and made unique for each business. You can't get away with cookie-cutter layouts if your goal is to continue making a living providing UI/UX as a service. A very small group of designers will get by just fine, but everyone else? You better start adding on some additional skills. 1. High level identity design is one of those areas that still has a moat if you're great at it. The deeply intellectual and abstract nature of that type of design is hard for models to get right. 2. Marketing. I know UI/UX and marketing are two entirely different things, but effective internet marketing is perhaps the most difficult thing to solve of everything. 3. Build your own SaaS while there's still time. I know none of these are what most designers want to hear, but times change. Be flexible, be willing to pivot.