More signal that the open-weight models should be our destiny as an industry. These proprietary models are being used to usher in more surveillance and gatekeeping across the industry.
Either way I don't think this will end well for humanity.
Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity
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#22Couple years ago the West was complaining about surveillance and scoring system of citizens in China (or was making fun of it) Seems like US wants to get ahead on this and be #1 Also Sam Altman will love this idea, because he already tried it with Worldcoin
The US is behind other democracies which have required photo id for social media and other content. And even if I disagree with these laws, surely you jest that showing a proof of age is not the same thing as surveilling and scoring.
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#23More signal that the open-weight models should be our destiny as an industry. These proprietary models are being used to usher in more surveillance and gatekeeping across the industry.
I’m curious (and please forgive my ignorance if it’s obvious), are open weight models practically feasible?
I mean from a financial and sustainability standpoint, assuming they’re equally powerful as their proprietary counterparts.
I guess I’m trying to understand the economics of it.
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#24I was really hoping we’d have more time before enshittification arrived. But apparently, an old Xeon running Qwen is my destiny.
+1
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#25Couple years ago the West was complaining about surveillance and scoring system of citizens in China (or was making fun of it) Seems like US wants to get ahead on this and be #1 Also Sam Altman will love this idea, because he already tried it with Worldcoin
the funny thing is that the US created the credit system
Because we dismantled class and caste. It’s a “meritocracy caste” system (nevermind that you likely get huge advantages based on your origin)
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#27that's what my credit card is for
Credit cards don't validate age. I set my kids up with authorized user cards when they started going out with friends.
Maybe they should. It would be far less intrusive for venders who wish to sell age restricted goods to simply have it built in like that.
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#28I should be worried about this, but Anthropic's products are a paid product. You can't use them without providing some identifying information, unless you're going out of your way to provide them inaccurate information. I generally dislike services which require this level of identity verification but also, so far, those have mostly been freemium services and community tools. And I dislike gating those communities. I…
I have no problem paying my groceries with my credit card, but I'd rather not give them a copy of my passport...
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Credit cards don't validate age. I set my kids up with authorized user cards when they started going out with friends.
Maybe they should. It would be far less intrusive for venders who wish to sell age restricted goods to simply have it built in like that.
You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy?
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#30If programming requires LLM/AI then regulation by government is needed to stop this overreach, which has the primary goal of banning you permanently forever making sure you can never come back to programming, in the event some AI in their system decides you have done something “wrong”.
Agreed.
Fortunately for all, clankers aren't required at all to program.