It's the complete opposite, it's filled with unreadable noise with almost no signal.

It's not some sci-fi thing, most plausible explanation is cost saving measures. Economics drive everything. And Opus 5 and to a lesser extent Fable 5 have clearly been quantised, or they serve different models to different users from various factors, like usage patterns, API vs subs and server load.

Here's a tragically funny but highly accurate satire of Claude's way of speaking these days (triggerwarning): https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1w3rxkj/average...

I've mentioned this before, but it reminds me of Oswald Bates from In Living Color:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71xxvp5R9hE

Brilliant!