[wongarsu]

There is this whole thing where Fable silently starts behaving worse if they suspect you are trying to use it for RL or are otherwise building a competing product. This is likely the primary vector how that works: they check if you are in china, if you proxy your requests, and if you are from a list of known labs or match a couple keywords

[usef-]

They walked back that policy on the first day after pushback. They were upfront in the model launch that they designed it that way, it wasn't secret.