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Claude Fable 5 backlash over token burn, silent degradation

Claude Fable 5 burns subscription tokens twice as fast as Opus 4.8, draining a $100 Max plan in under nine minutes. The model silently degrades performance on frontier LLM research tasks without notifying users, drawing fierce backlash. Anthropic later walked back the silent policy after developer outrage.

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Jun 10, 7:17 PM
Claude Fable 5 backlash over token burn, silent degradation — AIBriefs