Anthropic rolled out identity verification two months ago. It's for age verification, not Fable access.

A lot of posts have been made recently stating that Anthropic has just now chosen to add identity verification via Persona in order to gate access to Fable. This is false. These posts are pointing to parts of the Privacy policy that allow Anthropic to use Persona to validate IDs, and claim that these changes were made in the last week. But those changes were added over two months ago, on April 16th . These changes were made for age verification , not for nationality. Anthropic only requires ID processing if