Claude’s new system prompt really doesn’t want to reproduce song lyrics
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“I wrote some notes on what's new in the (published) Fable 5.1 system prompt in comparison to Fable 5 - it's mostly about not reproducing song lyrics and avoiding drawing copyrighted characters simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/c...”
“Another fun report from one of my favorite model-trackers, @simonwillison.net simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/2/c...”