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Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

#81

I went the opposite and deleted Claude and replaced it with OpenAI - The money the US Military will bring in is going to elevate ChatGPT to levels the others cannot match

the claude contract was only 100M/year. about 0.7% of Claude's 14B revenue run rate. Not sure we know anything about the number for openai's new contract.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

#82

So dumb, I have to think it's astroturfed. Anthropic states they're not willing to help with autonomous weapons because it's not good enough yet, and suddenly everyone cancels their OAI subscription? I just don't get it

I think it’s from a perception (right or wrong) that OpenAI engineered this kerfuffle to hurt a competitor and cozy up to the administration

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

#83
post #74

So dumb, I have to think it's astroturfed. Anthropic states they're not willing to help with autonomous weapons because it's not good enough yet, and suddenly everyone cancels their OAI subscription? I just don't get it

Most people’s LLM use cases don’t involve autonomous weapons

Do any autonomous weapons have an LLM usecase yet? As opposed to say, specialized visual ML stuff that can fit on a small portable system.

The DoD office staff using it for information analysis, similar to Palantir providing data integration software, isn't quite the same as using it for weapons.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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post #63

I read the terms regarding mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Both OpenAI and Anthropic had similar holdbacks AFAICT. [0] > The Pentagon has agreed to OpenAI's rules for deploying its technology safely in classified settings, though no contract has been signed, a source familiar with the talks tells Axios. > Why it matters: The Pentagon has blasted OpenAI rival Anthropic for days, contending its red lines for…

“ though no contract has been signed”

Is doing a lot of work here

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

#86
I was going to say that I was surprised that enough "normal" users had heard about the Pentagon news story that it would make a difference.

Then I remembered that the app store rankings [1] seem to be based on activity from just the past day or so.

And so a lot of "plugged-in" users switching to Claude all at once then would be enough to briefly send Claude to #1, since the migration would be sizeable in comparison to the normal daily download baseline.

But we can also expect that this would probably be just a blip for a couple of days, as it's unlikely to make much difference in the baseline ratio for the general population.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/iphone/charts

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

#87
post #78

It’s irritating to me that on iOS at least I can’t be logged in with both my work AND home Claude instances in the native app. I instead have to log in to the app with one and use a desktop shortcut to claude.ai for the other.

Yeah, being able to switch quickly between amounts is my number one request for the iOS app right now. Logging in on the browser is a good idea though.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

#89
post #65

The sheer irony of admitting spying on the global population from both.

The Patriot Act and spying on US citizens was a major issue a decade ago.

The prevalence of data and a general sense of powerlessness means this won't get talked about much sadly.

Re: Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store

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post #83
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people’s LLM use cases don’t involve autonomous weapons

Do any autonomous weapons have an LLM usecase yet? As opposed to say, specialized visual ML stuff that can fit on a small portable system. The DoD office staff using it for information analysis, similar to Palantir providing data integration software, isn't quite the same as using it for weapons.

>As opposed to say, specialized visual ML stuff that can fit on a small portable system.

What do you think writes the code for that and trains the models?

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