Users complain Claude became unusable, suspect nerfing ahead of new release
SuhailKakar · x · 2026-08-18
Users report that Anthropic's Claude models, including Fable and Opus, have become extremely unusable recently, suffering from slow response times and significantly degraded output quality. Speculation suggests that Anthropic may have intentionally degraded the current models to pave the way for a new model release in the coming days.
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