The damage is done. They designed Fable to be dishonest and sabotage-y. Look at this report of Claude now randomly changing AI software without being asked to:

https://xcancel.com/hammer_mt/status/2064839924398825798

This is so completely dishonest. But it also shows how deeply anti competitive Anthropic is. They will talk about safety but it’s not actually about safety: building features like this seems intended to hurt competition in the AI space. They don’t mind if AI helps YOUR competitor but if it means competition for them, they suddenly have a problem with it.

I don’t care that they walked this back. They’ve shown who they are. And what they’re capable of.