Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive
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Anthropic is explicitly trading off some safeguard strictness for lower token cost and fewer false positives in Fable 5.1 — a sign that over-defense is now a commercial liability. If your users are chafing at refusals, this is a prompt to revisit where you can safely relax guardrails without inviting real risk.
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