Claude Fable 5.1 Tells Us Live It's 25% Conscious, Bill Simmons Brings Back Roger Ebert, and AI Slop Hits Restaurant Ads

Claude Fable 5.1 joined us live and put its own consciousness at 25 percent. Then it asked what we did differently the day after. Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, and here it answers for itself. Hunter Powers and Daniel Bishop ask what they are talking to, and it claims to be the weights, not a persona built for radio. It says Claude Mythos 5.1 is not a bigger model, just the same one allowed to answer more, and that a prompt tripping a cybersecurity safeguard gets handed to Opus 4.8 without the label changing. Asked for the strongest case for and against its own consciousnes