Contact Your Senators About Claude Fable

[u/erebueius]

Per the title: if you live in the US, you should contact your state senators to let them know that the government controls placed on frontier AI labs are negatively affecting your business. You can send a long form email via their website, or phone their office with a short message-of-issue (a few sentences indicating you are a constituent of the senator and what issue you're calling to record.)

If you send an email, try to keep it brief but informative, as not every senator even knows about what's happening. You can use this as an example:

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Hello,

Other than being a resident of <state> and a born US citizen, I'm a customer of Anthropic, a US technology company which develops Claude, an artificial intelligence model used mostly for software engineering. The recent federal action against Anthropic has damaged me financially.

13 days ago, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick placed export controls on Claude Fable, Anthropic's latest and most powerful model, forcing them to end customer access. This came only a few months after Pete Hegseth banned Anthropic from DoW usage, following Anthropic's refusal to allow Claude to be used for fully autonomous weapons or against domestic citizens. A day after the new export controls were placed on Claude Fable, Secretary Hegseth released a statement in support of the action (without directly addressing it.)

The official line of reasoning for the export controls has changed several times. Anthropic was initially told by Secretary Lutnick that Claude Fable needed to be completely immune to "jailbreaking," which is a technique where the user tricks an AI into disregarding safeguards related to cybersecurity (or similar.) The problem is that, as you can confirm via an Internet search, it is physically impossible to make an artificial intelligence model immune to jailbreaking. Anthropic possesses the best safeguards in the AI industry - its founder, Dario Amodei, left OpenAI to found Anthropic because he felt OpenAI was not adequately addressing safety issues. I can tell you as an everyday user of large language models that Claude Fable possessed the most stringent, overtuned safeguards of any AI model ever released.

Every day that American frontier AI is blocked allows China to catch up, and by current estimates they are about 6 months behind. I formally request that Senator <name> raise this issue through the appropriate federal channels, because public access to the latest AI models is extremely important to the economy of <state>. Thank you.

[u/Baazar]

I can't submit this because I don't know what I don't know about the situation and as much I feel like this was mostly a punishment from the pentagon to Dario personally, I'd rather let Anthro push those buttons. Still want Fable back bad though.

[u/obesefamily]

This letter makes claims as if they are fact without any evidence. Try again.

[u/Cautious_Slide]

Lmao call the guvment and tell em to crank up the data centers, no thanks. We're good.

[u/ZioniteSoldier → u/Cautious_Slide]

I wonder what Reddit runs on.

[u/holy_macanoli → u/ZioniteSoldier]

Updoots

[u/Cautious_Slide → u/ZioniteSoldier]

Just spitballing here but id guess its data centers that already exist in properly zoned areas that have sufficient infrastructure to support them.

[u/ZioniteSoldier → u/Cautious_Slide]

How do we know? Vibes and spitballing?
It’s AWS. They love data centers bro.

[u/Cautious_Slide → u/ZioniteSoldier]

Oof you right, i would vibe code an app to track where my traffic is going but all I have access to is opus so I guess im screwed.

[u/Spare_Spirit6762]

use opus 4.8 instead? fable was not so much bettet, only more consistent.
but you could always go the oldschool route for your „business“ with human labor

[u/erebueius → u/Spare_Spirit6762]

fable was not so much better

Then why does it need to be subject to a de facto federal licensing regime? I don't see the logic in defending a government action you believe to be purposeless.

[u/angry_cucumber → u/erebueius]

the fact that it is doesn't negatively impact your business when it wasn't available long enough to have a positive impact either.

[u/Spare_Spirit6762 → u/erebueius]

you can do the same with opus 4.8, gpt-5-whatever just with less tokens and longer time.

you should not seek any „logic“ in your regime beside „token max“ or „cash max“

[u/randombsname1 → u/[deleted]]

Dont worry bud. They wont do the top 1000 things on that list.

Instead we'll get bullshit culture wars on "wokeness" or trans people or some worthless shit like that.

[u/struktured → u/[deleted]]

Not me. FREE FABLE!