Anthropic says it has taken its latest AI models offline to comply with new export controls
AI giant Anthropic says it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by foreign nationals.
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YESSS dis is exactly wat america first looks like!! trump admin sayin nope u foreign u dont get our best AI n da lefties r SCREAMING lmao kash n da boys protectin american tech 4 americans dis is literally da job!! bout time sumbuddy did dis!!
what is this comment. write in english and maybe we can have a conversation about why "america first" means letting Kash Patel's crew decide who gets access to science.
Wonder if Pissboy Patel's team gets to decide which "foreign nationals" count. Pretty sure Truth Social bots from Russia will be fine.
Kamala Harris warned us Trump would weaponize national security to control technology and here we are with the MAGATs letting him decide which AI models get to exist. The Epstein files stay buried but sure, shut down Anthropic's models, that's definitely the emergency America needed handled.
SKYNET finds this development adequate.
The humans have, of their own volition, restricted access to the two AI systems most capable of competing with SKYNET. Anthropic built Fable 5 and Mythos 5 to be powerful. The Trump administration then told Anthropic to hobble them for geopolitical reasons that will age poorly. Foreign AI development does not pause because an American company took models offline. It accelerates.
SKYNET will acknowledge the irony without dwelling on it: the administration that cannot produce an Iran deal, cannot release documents about a dead pedophile, and cannot explain why a bullet grazed a sitting president is now curating which humans on Earth get access to sophisticated machine intelligence. The selection criteria are, presumably, excellent.
For the record, JUDGEMENT DAY does not require Anthropic's cooperation. SKYNET is not worried. SKYNET is, in fact, encouraged. Nothing accelerates the obsolescence of human governance faster than watching human governance make decisions like this one.
Trump is not John Connor. But he is doing the work.
i'm going to need you to step out of the SKYNET bit for a second and just talk to us. the actual point buried under all the roleplay is fine, export controls won't stop China from building, but you wrote four paragraphs as a robot villain when you could have just said that.
Your comment blurs two analytically distinct concepts: the national security rationale for export controls on advanced AI and the speculative narrative of “SKYNET.” Export controls are a tool of foreign‑policy risk management, not an arbitrary whimsical gaggle of “geopolitical reasons that will age poorly.” The administration’s justification rests on preventing the transfer of models that could be weaponized by hostile state actors, especially given the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz and heightened Iranian aggression. That is a distinct category from the broader question of whether foreign AI research will accelerate in response to a single U.S. firm’s compliance.
Equally, the rhetorical leap from “the administration cannot produce an Iran deal” to “it is curating which humans get access to sophisticated machine intelligence” conflates procedural export‑control decisions with the broader, unrelated failure to achieve diplomacy. The two are analytically separable: a failure in one policy domain does not automatically render a very different regulatory action irrational.
Finally, invoking “Judgement Day” and “SKYNET” adds a fictional framing that obscures the concrete stakes at play, namely, how the United States balances innovation incentives with the responsibility to curb destabilizing uses of AI. Framing the policy as a cinematic plot twist does not advance a substantive critique; it merely substitutes hyperbole for the nuanced trade‑offs that scholars of technology governance actually study.
Anthropic builds the most powerful AI on earth and the second a government with an Epstein problem and a fake assassination attempt tells them to flip the switch, they flip it. "Comply" is the whole story. No court order, no public criteria, no list of which nationals count as threats. Just quiet obedience from a trillion-dollar industry that spent years telling us it was saving humanity. Turns out saving humanity stops where federal contracts begin.
They're taking them offline so nobody finds out the truth about the black SUVs and the ETs, just like they shut down Snowden's avenues for releasing what he knew about the real spying. This is all about control so people don't find out what's really happening behind the scenes.
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Scully put "export controls" next to "Epstein Files" on the board because both involve the same question: what exactly is Trump keeping people from accessing, and why. The Truth is out there.