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The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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The AI labs look rather naive here. You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it. Their new argument now seems be that this was marketing hype/fluff that backfired, in a pretty obvious and predicable way, and now they’re trying to reset the conversation.

Dog caught the car

Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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post #23

>Some administration officials have said that a resolution should include an acknowledgment on Anthropic’s part that its rollout of Fable and communication with the White House could have been improved, people familiar with the talks said. >followed initial frustration Friday among some administration officials when they couldn’t immediately get Amodei on the phone, the people said. That he didn't drop everything to…

And Anthropic say they were on the phone within 15 minutes… This administration is not known for its honesty so it’s hard to take their side of things

Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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post #9

The AI labs look rather naive here. You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it. Their new argument now seems be that this was marketing hype/fluff that backfired, in a pretty obvious and predicable way, and now they’re trying to reset the conversation.

No. They got caught in a change in what it means to be "regulated". Regulation in a functional democracy: Cool, lets figure this out, write up a bill for us, do some research in congress, lets find something that makes sense. Regulation in a function fascism: Cool, wheres my bribe? My boots not shiny, lick it till I say stop. See, Anthropic wasn't licking enough boot when Biden got discharged and they thought Amazon…

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Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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post #9

The AI labs look rather naive here. You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it. Their new argument now seems be that this was marketing hype/fluff that backfired, in a pretty obvious and predicable way, and now they’re trying to reset the conversation.

This is 99% petty drama between the US government and Anthropic and 1% actual safety concerns.

But the paperclips!

I'm skeptical about the existential threat of AI, but a lot of smart people have been beating that drum for so long that people are afraid.

Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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post #9

The AI labs look rather naive here. You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it. Their new argument now seems be that this was marketing hype/fluff that backfired, in a pretty obvious and predicable way, and now they’re trying to reset the conversation.

No. They got caught in a change in what it means to be "regulated". Regulation in a functional democracy: Cool, lets figure this out, write up a bill for us, do some research in congress, lets find something that makes sense. Regulation in a function fascism: Cool, wheres my bribe? My boots not shiny, lick it till I say stop. See, Anthropic wasn't licking enough boot when Biden got discharged and they thought Amazon…

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Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

#36
post #9

The AI labs look rather naive here. You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it. Their new argument now seems be that this was marketing hype/fluff that backfired, in a pretty obvious and predicable way, and now they’re trying to reset the conversation.

This is 99% petty drama between the US government and Anthropic and 1% actual safety concerns.

To be clear, this is petty drama *stirred up the US government*. It's not some sort of back and forth, the government is singling them out

Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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post #9

The AI labs look rather naive here. You can’t jump up and down screaming how amazing, powerful, and dangerous your new tech is and then act surprised and annoyed when the government shows up looking to regulate it. Their new argument now seems be that this was marketing hype/fluff that backfired, in a pretty obvious and predicable way, and now they’re trying to reset the conversation.

I suspect they're taking this as a win either way, because they're still plastering "Fable 5 unavailable" on their product and using it as an opportunity to keep themselves in the spotlight as they head to IPO.

There's really not even a ban here, they could slot in Fable under the Opus label and no one would really be able to tell. It's all part of the same show to pump up valuation.

Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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Unrelated to this story but Carlini rocks.

tic tac toe in printf https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

Recently Regex Chess: A 2-ply minimax chess engine in 84,688 regular expressions https://github.com/carlini/regex-chess

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48136909

Re: The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenAI is also guilty of excessive fear mongering (remember GPT 2 is too dangerous to release?) This isn't 100% Anthropic's fault, although I'm sure that's part of it. This is the current corrupt administration executing on a grudge they have against Anthropic, and the government's new found love of picking winners and losers.

That was dario amodei as well, when he was still at openai. He is the primary "create hype by claiming you're dangerous"-guy.

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