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About trunnell
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Comment #49040629
The chaos appears to be tamed for now. From the system card [1]: The Fable cyber classifier we have previously discussed also applies to Claude Opus 5 , with one notable exception:…
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Comment #48894750
I dislike bots as much as anyone else... when weird inquiries come through my company's lead form, it costs some time and attention to sort them. But what makes Cloudflare so confi…
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Comment #48752899
Their post detailing the timeline and their actions since reinforce my belief that Anthropic is among the most trustworthy AI companies. https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-…
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Comment #48752768
Blame Amazon and the White House
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Comment #48742360
There is no reason to have less trust in Anthropic. It's not clear they did anything wrong. It's more likely the White House simply tied itself in knots, consistent with the last y…
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Comment #48742306
Hooray! Glad everyone came to their senses and we can all get on with business. I bet it'll continue to be messy at the frontier for the foreseeable future as society gradually wak…
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Comment #48650456
Maybe you mean that an expert will use more specific language which in turn triggers the model to give a response that more closely matches the "expert distribution" Anthropic publ…
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Comment #48591541
> honest angle is that the industry [felt] exposed by the residual risk [and] have a months-long bugfixing backlog exposed by Glasswing Two problems with this theory. 1. Amazon com…
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Comment #48591350
Sure they exist but they're rare, difficult to identify and hire, and take years to train. Mythos/Fable is available on tap.
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Comment #48574968
What an amazing achievement by America's adversaries. The Trump administration lists Anthropic as a security risk and kneecaps its best model, despite the fact that compared to the…
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Comment #48574600
Why?
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Comment #48511595
> They ultimately got what they wanted. No, it's not what they wanted. As it says in your quote, they wanted "a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and grounded in …
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Comment #48495850
Oh, I agree distillation isn't stealing "outright" as in it's not theft of 100% of the model. But there's a reason they're doing it. I didn't say anything about Chinese labs innova…
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Comment #48495431
"Anthropic accused Chinese firms of 'industrial-scale distillation attacks' on its AI models." "Distillation involves training less capable models on more advanced ones’ output, an…
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Comment #48495330
To prevent their models from doing harm in dual-use contexts including CBRN or by accelerating research in authoritarian-backed AI labs.
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Comment #48495071
I'll defend Anthropic. They are clear about the reasons for guardrails: prevent their models from doing harm in dual-use contexts including CBRN or by accelerating research in auth…
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Comment #48314153
We've heard: - It can make kids "overconfident when they see material they think they already know, so they end up not engaging." - Some programs, particularly RSM, are criticized …
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Comment #48311908
I'm in the SF bay area w/ middle school and high school age kids. Between San Jose and San Francisco, 15%-30% of kids are in private school (it's 30% in SF where the public schools…
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Comment #48310679
> The people working on this aren't idiots. Which people are you referring to?
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Comment #46861525
How about, "tell the agent to write instructions for cloud deployment with a cost estimate"
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Comment #46317315
That’s for future unreleased capabilities and models, not the model released today. They did the same thing for gpt-5.1-codex-max (code name “arcticfox”), delaying its availability…
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Comment #46316576
Why aren’t they making gpt-5.2-codex available in the API at launch?
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Comment #46176606
I hate to tell you this, but it might not be the full story that making search easier is "all it does." Why doesn't the macOS App Store game search include results from Steam? That…
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Comment #46176442
Yeah, it's ok, can't win 'em all. Lots of negativity in this thread. Maybe people have a gut feeling that "Netflix buying WB" fits into the preexisting narrative about media consol…
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Comment #46176298
Have you considered the possibility that much like App Store rules, Apple's requirements for "catalog indexing" go far, far beyond the Netflix catalog merely showing up in TV app? …