How is this article not going to even mention the recent threats to Anthropic from the Government?!
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Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
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#102First they rushed a model to market without safety checks, and I said nothing. It wasn't my field. Then they ignored the researchers warning about what it could do, and I said nothing. It sounded like science fiction. Then they gave it control of things that matter, power grids, hospitals, weapons, and I said nothing. It seemed to be working fine. Then something went wrong, and no one knew how to stop it, no one had…
Kinda sounds like an intro for Terminator
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#103Developments like this make me less interested in building a "successful" tech company. It increasingly feels like operating at that scale can require compromises I’m not comfortable making. Maybe that’s a personal limitation—but it’s one I’m choosing to keep. I’d genuinely love to hear examples of tech companies that have scaled without losing their ethical footing. I could use the inspiration.
Maybe this is a weird arena to state the obvious. But you don't need to build a multi-billion vc/public company. Build a smaller revenue generating company without outside funding and it's up to you.
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#104Wish I was working there so I could resign over this
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#105I don’t blame anthropic here. The government literally threatened their existence publicly. They either agreed or their business would be nationalized.
No, they either agreed or fought the government. You’re allowed to fight governments. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend King Jr did it, and they wrote about how to do it. You might lose sometimes, but my god, you can at least fight.
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#106pentagon told them they would cap their knees if they didnt bend
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lotta just following orders going around in the US right now.
This isn’t just following orders. This was the government using its might to force a business to do what it wants. This should concern you.
>This isn’t just following orders. This was the government using its might to force a business to do what it wants.
You are saying it like it is something new or extraordinary. Wickard_v._Filburn gave the USG the power to bitch slap anyone unless it falls under some of the other amendments. And not as if they were not substantially weakened.
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#108safety pledges are great it times of peace to show what great virtues you hold. sadly in hard times these go out of the window (: hard to blame them with all the fine examples around the world.
making promises in good times is a real minefield hah
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#109Anthropic and OpenAI really need a margin call from some obscure unknown Chinese Open Weight Model.
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#110Just another drop in the now overflowing bucket of evidence that you can't trust any of these immoral fuck wits.
The Amodeis' have just proven that the threat of even slight hardship will make them throw any and all principles away.