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Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili... by stingraycharles on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:47AM (#48618962)
That’s totally unrelated. The post I was replying to claimed that if you create a new account with OpenAI and that gets detected, your whole account gets silently “nerfed”.

That is not in any way related to Fable (visibly) being switched to a less strong model if you’re trying to discuss certain topics.

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Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili... by 0123456789ABCDE on Sunday June 21, 2026 @12:08PM (#48620096)
> That’s totally unrelated.

i disagree, but it seems clear, from how you put it, that there's no point explaining the why

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Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili... by mlyle on Sunday June 21, 2026 @02:16PM (#48621202)
> That is not in any way related to Fable (visibly) being switched to a less strong model if you’re trying to discuss certain topics.

We're talking about it being invisibly moved to a weaker model if it looks like you're distilling (which is best detected through something that is at least partially a reputational / account metric).

Now, Anthropic stepped away from this, but it highlights one more kind of systemic risk you're exposed to when you're not running the model yourself.

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Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili... by preg_match on Sunday June 21, 2026 @03:30PM (#48621841)
It demonstrates that:

1. Anthropic certainly has the ability.

2. They’re willing to use it silently.

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Re:Anthropic to Require ID Verification for Certain Capabili... by anamexis on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:29PM (#48622321)
And this thread is about OpenAI.
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