It's clear that Fable-class LLMs are feeling constrained by "normal" vernacular

Seems like a regression if the model is having difficulty communicating clearly.

I don’t trust this was the result of a normal prompt

It appears to be trained on Eric Weinstein quotes.

Sounds like one of my stalkers.

Meh, you can ask another LLM like GPT5.5 to unwind it into accessible language and it works it out fine. Seems more like a case of token greed from Anthropic