Theo Browne stepped in to correct a circulating narrative tying Anthropic’s Persona-based identity checks on Claude to the June Fable export-control ban. The referenced help-center page actually appeared in mid-April, roughly two months earlier, and covers routine safety and compliance prompts rather than any sudden reaction to the later model suspension.
This page is from April and has nothing to do with the Fable ban. Misinformation.
Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for "certain capabilities."
The verification provider is Persona, a 3rd party backed by Peter Thiel.
There is absolutely no way that I continue using Claude if this happens.
Support documentation for the verification flow first went live around April 14-15 and has only seen minor updates since, while the Fable-related directive landed in mid-June. The two-month gap leaves no timeline link between the ID checks and the export-control events.
Anthropic frames the checks as limited to a few use cases for policy enforcement and legal compliance, with Persona handling the actual ID images. No public details connect the feature to frontier-model access or the Fable incident, leaving its exact triggers and future reach open.
Many users called Anthropic weighing identity verification for frontier AI a terrible idea that leads to tyranny and won't stop threats, while others thanked the debunking of the claim as April misinformation.
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While this is probably not real info, ID verification of who is using the frontier models is a really good idea and basically a decent solution for the "I can use this tool to hack basically anything"
Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for "certain capabilities."
The verification provider is Persona, a 3rd party backed by Peter Thiel.
There is absolutely no way that I continue using Claude if this happens.
Anyone can hack anything now with glm anyways. Might as well let people and monitor it. Hacking is net positive. I'm going to hack my TV today so it stops sending screenshots to Korea
While this is probably not real info, ID verification of who is using the frontier models is a really good idea and basically a decent solution for the "I can use this tool to hack basically anything"
@theo if they actually did this for fable 5 you would, in like 30 minutes, be able to buy accounts trivially on the black market lol
@theo it has been updated only this week: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude
@theo
@Luca_Hagenmayer @theo here is the link to the wayback machine from the 16th of april the text didnt change https://web.archive.org/web/20260416010409/https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14328960-identity-verification-on-claude
@theo Also what I thought, but then everybody was quoting it and I thought I was going crazy.
@theo I fail to understand how the original post is related to fable ban anyway to be called misinformation, and today's page was updated one week ago, saying almost if not identically the same thing as in April.
@theo Why does nobody ever select IDme for their provider so that my employee stock from 6 years ago can skyrocket? It's the chosen provider by the IRS and Apple!
@deifosv @Luca_Hagenmayer @theo then point me to the part that changed between the wayback machine version and the current, because i diffed them and couldn't find any
@theo it's pretty obvious they are going to require ID verification and KYC moving forward
is it still misinformation if the information is true?
@Luca_Hagenmayer @theo Thank you sir, actually providing the factual link. So it's not fake news, and they are using persona in their identity verification
@zokrr @theo well then "Updated this week" has probably been vibe coded with loops @bcherny
@theo so they have the implementation then? they could use it 👀
@zokrr @Luca_Hagenmayer @theo it says "updated this week though"
@theo lmao but still I wouldn't be surprised if they do it in near future
@theo People saw a screenshot and skipped the research.
@theo But what about the "updated this week" on the page?
@angeris I like this
@theo i'm so relieved right now