My latest deep dive into using frontier AI models to research and write scholarly papers — this time with the just-released Fable 5.1 model from Anthropic
I've heard that Fable is not an especially good writer. There is part of me that wonders if this is a byproduct of increasing these models ability to code or (more sneakily) a deliberate attempt to actually downgrade their models abilities to write to circumvent all the consternation around AI writing. Opus is still very impressive (and my default) but I have not seen major improvements in its writing over the past 6 months not withstanding the serious increase in capabilities on the agent and coding front.
I've heard that Fable is not an especially good writer. There is part of me that wonders if this is a byproduct of increasing these models ability to code or (more sneakily) a deliberate attempt to actually downgrade their models abilities to write to circumvent all the consternation around AI writing. Opus is still very impressive (and my default) but I have not seen major improvements in its writing over the past 6 months not withstanding the serious increase in capabilities on the agent and coding front.
I wonder that as well