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Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. (Wikipedia)

and which part do you think Facebook/twitter/etc don't take part in?

Wrong question. Of course they censor content. I did not say they don’t do it, I only pointed out that comparison to USSR is quite an exaggeration.

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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I have no trouble with Google as they have a way less aggressive crawl rate and Google actually sends me website traffic. Claude only takes. Google takes and gives.

In the example above, Claude's crawler is on a whooping 0.0008 TPS, not exactly a DDOS attack. I'm not against blocking Claude for the reason you outline (or all LLM crawlers for that matter), but it's not exactly an "aggressive crawl rate".

On my server with 70 sites with about 100.000.000 unique pages I saw 60 urls per second regularly. Not even Googlebot hammers my server at that rate.

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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the chilling effect is the same.

No, the chilling effect is very different. One is a tragedy that needs to be brought to justice, the second one is never going to get any semblance of justice from its very principle.

tell that to the school teacher from Birmingham that is in hiding because they showed a cartoon to children. I'm sure they're real happy about justice.

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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post #120

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and which part do you think Facebook/twitter/etc don't take part in?

Wrong question. Of course they censor content. I did not say they don’t do it, I only pointed out that comparison to USSR is quite an exaggeration.

what evidence would convince you that the comparison is apt?

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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So, in general Claude still beats newest GPT-4o model in software development category, right? [1] Although new GPT is better at small coding excercises (72.9% vs 68.4%), it falls behind in more challenging refactoring tasks (62.9% vs 72.3%). I used Claude through VPN from Europe, and from the start could see it was much better than GPT-4, in my limited very subjective use cases. [1] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboa…

> So, in general Claude still beats newest GPT-4o model in software development category, right? [1] I'm genuinely curious to which extent widely published benchmarks can be used for this kind of assessment. The exercises this benchmark uses seem to be available in https://github.com/exercism/python/tree/main/exercises , and it seems that there are solutions at least at https://exercism.org/tracks/python/exercises/se…

> What if one model has the exercism solutions in its training data, but the other model doesn't, is the comparison still fair?

I agree that it might not be fair. However, refactoring is a different story imo since as I see it relates to more general capability of the model (description about refactoring tasks are in the link from previous comment).

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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post #123

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No, the chilling effect is very different. One is a tragedy that needs to be brought to justice, the second one is never going to get any semblance of justice from its very principle.

tell that to the school teacher from Birmingham that is in hiding because they showed a cartoon to children. I'm sure they're real happy about justice.

What they are experiencing is terrible but still doesn't compare to actual censorship. I'm sure they still appreciate that the state didn't put them in prison and ban their children from education and employment except the hardest, most hazardous jobs where it is actually expected it will kill you sooner than later. State sanctioned violence hits very differently - the power disparity is unbearable and nothing you do will help you or your family, you can't move, you can't run, you can't negotiate, you can't fight, and unless you're very lucky and the entire regime falls it will never stop.

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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post #124

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Wrong question. Of course they censor content. I did not say they don’t do it, I only pointed out that comparison to USSR is quite an exaggeration.

what evidence would convince you that the comparison is apt?

I know that such evidence does not exist, but if it were, a detailed comparison based on it would deserve a scientific degree. Neither a single corporation nor entire big tech considered together as a single actor can really compare with the scale and diversity of censorship of a totalitarian state.

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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It's very different. A stabbing is a crime that is prosecuted, state sanctioned imprisonment is not.

the chilling effect is the same.

In the countries with free speech the effect is not chilling at all. Do you remember “Je suis Charlie”?

Re: Claude is now available in Europe

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The voice user interface for natural two-way conversation is GPT’s killer feature. Gemini also suppports voice input, which I use to make interactions easier on desktop. Hopefully Anthopic will add at least speech-to-text support, although I understand smartphones often include that already. That said, the OpenAI Whisper TTS is really nice for English language input.

I find the two way voice to be unnatural and difficult to manage. I also find myself needing more time to compose my thoughts in the middle of a prompt than the ChatGPT conversation input allows me. The weird breaths and stuff kinda creep me out.

Good point, the cadence and intonation can feel unnatural.

I still believe that voice user interface is one of the more power and profound shifts these tools offer. They’re among the first generation of technologies that can parse human speech, follow commands, and if desired respond with speech. Those capabilities are more powerful when coupled with the ability to compress vast amounts of knowledge and generalize.

Like anything, LLMs and multi-modal models are far from perfect and raise many ethical and philosophical concerns. I’m cautiously optimistic as I believe voice interaction can make technology much more widely accessible and helpful to many people.

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