Anthropic’s new privacy policy offers US consumers a way around the Fable ban
Anthropic’s apparent inability to identify which of its users are foreign nationals has led to some collateral damage from a US export ban on its most powerful AI models — but there is a way around it, at least for some. On Friday, the US government ordered Anthropic to suspend access to Fable and Mythos, the new AI models it had introduced just a few days earlier, to all foreign nationals, citing national security reasons. While the drafters of the US order may have had sovereignty in mind, they ended up making it an identity management problem. “The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,” Anthropic said in a blog post commenting on the order, implying that it was unable to distinguish between foreign nationals and US citizens in its user base. That’s likely the case today, but for its consumer customers, an update to its privacy policy, introduced last week and taking effect on July 8, gives it a new