This represents the first instance of a major AI company implementing usage monitoring and restriction systems at the individual user level, with precise tracking of personal consumption patterns down to the message. The ability to identify and control individual digital resource usage at this granular level demonstrates technological capabilities necessary for prophesied economic control systems.
AI Rate Limits: Digital Currency Control System Takes Shape
📰 What Happened
Anthropic has announced new weekly rate limits for its Claude AI service after discovering users exploiting unlimited access. Some subscribers to the $200/month Max tier were running the AI system continuously, with one user consuming 'tens of thousands in model usage.' The company currently allows 900 messages every 5 hours but is implementing stricter controls to prevent abuse while maintaining service for legitimate users.
📖 Prophetic Significance
The implementation of precise individual usage tracking ('tens of thousands in model usage') combined with centralized rate limiting reveals emerging infrastructure for digital resource control. The $200 subscription tier with 900-message limits every 5 hours demonstrates how access to critical technologies can be precisely metered and restricted. This parallels Revelation's description of controlled buying and selling, but now applied to digital resources. The real-time monitoring of individual user behavior ('running continuously in the background, 24/7') shows how consumption patterns can be tracked and restricted at unprecedented granularity.