> That's what they said, but were they, really?

Yes, most likely, but not in this form, obviously. They want open weight models regulated for regulatory capture, and I'd assume they want an actually documented framework applied equally across all labs.

If GPT5.5 has the same capabilities Fable did, then for consistency sake, it should have also been subject to this ban.

Regulate or not regulate, but the government should not pick winners and losers.