Fable 5 Is Back But With Some BIG Restrictions
Channel: Paul J Lipsky
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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] Well, Fable 5 is back, but there's a
[0:02] catch. Actually, there are several big
[0:04] catches that are going to upset a lot of
[0:07] people. I'm going to go over what those
[0:09] are, and we'll also look at what you can
[0:11] and cannot do with the new Fable 5, and
[0:14] all the restrictions that have been
[0:15] placed on it. I've been doing some quick
[0:17] testing around it and have some helpful
[0:19] results for all of you. So, first, let's
[0:21] start with some good news. Fable 5 is
[0:23] back. If you open up Claude, you should
[0:25] see this now. Here in the desktop app,
[0:27] you may see this big message or on the
[0:29] model picker, you'll see Fable 5 in
[0:31] there. But unfortunately, that is all
[0:33] the good news, because even though we
[0:35] have access to Fable 5, it comes with a
[0:37] lot of restrictions. So first, Fable 5
[0:40] is only included for up to 50% of your
[0:43] weekly usage limits, which means as soon
[0:46] as your weekly usage limit hits 50%,
[0:49] then you will not be able to use Fable
[0:51] 5. You will have to go back to using
[0:53] Opus or Sonnet. And it's only through
[0:56] July 7th, which