Nathan says the reporting on why Fable got pulled (possibly triggered by an Amazon report to the government) is still full of gaps, and he wants a more public accounting of what actually happened. ✦ AI generated
Nathan · The Cognitive Revolution · 2026-07-02 · original ↗
starts at this moment · 9:26
I have a hard time telling a story that doesn't leave me with weird open-ended questions around what was seen, why was it reported in this way, how did we end up in this sort of panic situation, and then how was it fixed?
verbatim transcript · starts at 9:26
9:26uh some sort of sabotage, but there's not really a, you know, I I have a hard time telling a story that doesn't leave me with weird open-ended questions around what was seen, why was it reported in this way, how did we end up in this sort of panic situation, and then how was it fixed? You know, the best information I've seen suggests that the way that they mostly reassured the
9:52government was to painstakingly point out that the things that were observed had already been capabilities that were in the wild with other models for some time. And again, that's a sort of strange way to get back into the, you know, the approved column is to say, look, everybody, it's kind of like, you know, something my kid would try, right? like he was doing it too. It's a sort of a
10:18strange way to uh try to get out of the frontier model penalty box. Uh so yeah, I mean if you fill in all the gaps in a charitable way, you can tell a Jud uh resin type story where this is, you know, kind of a clumsy perhaps but ultimately enlightened uh step to take for the government. or if you fill in those gaps in an uncharitable way, you're just kind
10:48of left shaking your head and thinking, who's making these weird moves and and causing these weird hiccups, and I would love to see better information at a minimum. You know, at this point, it really seems like the conversation can and should be more public than it has been. So, that's what I'll be watching next in between prompting fable. Do you have any thoughts on where we are at this point?
11:16There's also the question of how nuked it is coming back or nerfed. Um, and there I haven't I don't have enough information yet to really render a good judgment. For my personal use, it does not seem to have been affected so much that I can't do what I want to do. But then I have seen at least some reporting online suggesting that the fallbacks to Fable are more or the the fallbacks to