We need to talk about Fable

We need to talk about Fable. We need to talk about what's going on with Fable, because it matters far beyond whether or not Fable's going to come back. My guess is that it will. But this whole situation, this very messy situation, is an inflection point, not just for AI in America, but AI period. I'm working on a much deeper dive in a full YouTube episode. And save this video because I'll be calling the link in the comments. Or you can follow along for more on how to think with AI and not like AI. And let me tell you as a thinker and a consumer, this is a big deal. Not only for the first time ever is the government actually stepping in an attempt to regulate this largely unregulated industry, citing national security concerns on top of that. And trying to restrict exposure to US citizens only. Which bears a question: How do you start to do that without going full surveillance citizenship authentication? What does it mean for frontier models and powerful capabilities? Fable is likely just the tip of the iceberg. What about agents that run fully autonomously, whether they be OpenClaw, Mana, Hermes, etc. Cause in the hands of bad actors can have as well. The pattern that is very access and control by marketing and no clear bad guy. One hand, a largely negligent government that has a very contentious relationship with both science and scientific experts. Don't forget they have completely gutted the FDA and the CDC. Tech has been a little bit of a gray area. But when we look at the administration and the expertise they have in charge to potentially influence AI governance, it's a bit shaky. On the other side, we have private enterprise in this that has positioned itself as on the side of humans, the good guys in this race. But neither really have our best interest at hand. Not even in troth. Because both control our access to this technology. The government, based off of whether or not you're a US citizen. And private companies that determine whether you pay actually access the technology. Remember, every time we work like Claude or ChatGPT, renting space and power. We don't own anything. So for me, it's really accelerated this idea of what open source, local model usage means for me and my workflows. It's always been my backlog up on experimenting here and there. But after the events of Fable, I'm accelerating and I'll be sharing that journey here more and more. Of course, I'll be stoked when Fable comes back. I'll continue to use large language models from Frontier Labs. But I'll also be building my ability to be more autonomous with the way that I work and the way that I think.