Dissecting the Fable Shutdown Furor: Rossmann's Critique of the 'Safety' Pretext and Its Contradictions

The creator takes up the case in which the U.S. government told Anthropic that 'foreign nationals must not be allowed to use its most powerful model, Fable,' and Anthropic responded by pulling the model so no one could use it. Noting that the topic sprawls and that cramming it all into one video risks losing viewers, he declares he will nonetheless tackle it all at once.

He then makes his position clear. He does not think the Trump administration is a good one, and at the same time considers Anthropic 'a gaslighting, awful company,' stressing that this is a neutral critique and that he is not rooting for either camp.

The topic digresses for a moment to Claude's billing change announced on June 15. The announcement is that paid plans get 'monthly credits for programmatic use,' covering use through the Agent SDK, Claude-P, Claude Code, GitHub Actions, and the like.

To anyone not deeply involved in the community, granting credits looks like good news, but the creator argues it is effectively a downgrade. Using Claude inside those programs stays as is, but throwing the same prompt from your own scripts applies the 'API billing rate.' He criticizes it as a structure that penalizes precisely the users who want to automate work without sitting in front of the terminal waiting for it to finish.

Returning to the main point, the creator attacks the very logic of the Fable ban. If the model is so dangerous, why give U.S. citizens access to it? If it were truly about safety, the consistent move would be to let no one use it; banning only foreign nationals makes no sense.

He mocks the very premise that no U.S. citizen would ever try to break into the CIA or government servers, or obtain non-public information related to JFK or Epstein. His conclusion: both Anthropic, pretending to care about safety, and the government, pretending to care about hacking victims, are full of pretext from top to bottom.