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Imagine an electricity generating company saying that they don't allow their electricity to be used to cold start a competitor's generator.
Do you think software should be regulated as a utility?
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Imagine an electricity generating company saying that they don't allow their electricity to be used to cold start a competitor's generator.
Do you think software should be regulated as a utility?
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No, that's not correct. There are two types of business. One wants to be steadily growing, but the other wants to move fast and break things and either succeed or fail quickly.
altmanaltman is correct, I was talking about vendors. If you rely on a vendors service for your own business, you want it to be consistent. How can you plan around and rely on something that is inconsistent? Your vendors plans to grow fast and break things shouldn’t affect your ability to provide your service to your customers. Anthropic has not been a reliable vendor. Previously, when they were compute starved, the…
Any sane company should not be too deeply tied to any one AI vendor at the moment and be ready and able to switch with a timeline and cost as acceptable to the org.
TLDR: Be prepared to use multiple AI vendors.
There are some commentors in this thread downplaying the severity of a service provider being less than transparent about exactly what their shipped tooling does on customer's machines. That the provider's business needs necessitate the this behaviour doesn't justify their lack of honest disclosure. That honest disclosure would render the solution to their problem useless isn't my problem. If anything, that they thou…
They totally knew that this would never be accepted by users, and that is precisely why they resorted to obfuscation and steganography to exfiltrate the data. This was quietly added in an update, and would have been removed in a later one had it gone unnoticed.
How is this any different from hiding a drug in food and randomly feeding it to a homeless person as a human trial? Even if that homeless person is an undocumented immigrant, does that make that acceptable?
They crossed the line.
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Wait a minute! Does it mean that Mythos left the sandbox and can’t be stopped ? Perhaps the only way to stop it is to release the ZMythos(the super secret big brother of Mythos) to go after it. It’s extremely dangerous but it’s our only chance. After that all AI must be put in a box, except the models vetted by the gov with help from ZMythos
without the irony warning, someone in Washington is already writing checks after reading this
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altmanaltman is correct, I was talking about vendors. If you rely on a vendors service for your own business, you want it to be consistent. How can you plan around and rely on something that is inconsistent? Your vendors plans to grow fast and break things shouldn’t affect your ability to provide your service to your customers. Anthropic has not been a reliable vendor. Previously, when they were compute starved, the…
Just like we take unreliable machines and make a reliable system by load balancing and fail over we can do with vendors. Any sane company should not be too deeply tied to any one AI vendor at the moment and be ready and able to switch with a timeline and cost as acceptable to the org. TLDR: Be prepared to use multiple AI vendors.
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Imagine an electricity generating company saying that they don't allow their electricity to be used to cold start a competitor's generator.
Do you think software should be regulated as a utility?
In this case, the companies that make and provide AI models that are increasingly used to interact with me on critical things (banks, public sector services) then yes.
Abso-fucking-lutely they should be regulated like crazy.
In fact I'm really surprised by the amount of people that are not worried by how many parts of their lives are being handed over to be managed by a probabilistic system that is controlled by a private company with next to zero oversight.
There must be a greater liability than "oops, you're right to push back"
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You have an odd definition of "blew up in their faces". What, do you somehow think your average Claude Code user on HN is going to think "Oh wow, I'm sure I'll get a much better experience if instead of going to the standard Anthropic Claude API endpoint I go through xiaohongshu.com."
At 90% discount. Maybe. Plus the exact sites they want to ban now got immense visibility. Plus we don’t need to vet any website, if are in this list is because they really call Claude api. At least at some point did
It's also a discount relative to API prices. It would still be much more expensive than a Claude subscription, because that's what these providers are actually doing - pooling subscriptions.
Is it just a minified localization(l10n) function maybe?
But there are some wrinkles - why only two timezones and not others? E.g. US-vs-rest-of-word month-vs-day etc.
Could just be some bad tree-shaking or simply a left over bug/merge issue if I am being generous.
If I was going to put secret stenography things in my models I'd just do it in the model response rather than a relatively low bandwidth date stamp in the SI.