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ddtaylor wrote: post #271
otterley wrote: post #269

The stories I’ve been reading say that the DoW’s agreement with OpenAI contain the very same limitations as the agreement with Anthropic did. In other words, they pressured Anthropic to eliminate those restrictions, Anthropic declined, then they made a huge fuss calling them “a radical left, woke company,” put them on the supply-chain risk list, then went with OpenAI even though OpenAI isn’t changing anything either.…

The PR strategy described here is often referred to as "The Overton Window Shift" or "Strategic Iteration." Essentially, OpenAI (or any entity using this tactic) enters a negotiation or public debate by asserting a position that seems flexible or "safety-first." When a competitor like Anthropic holds a firm ethical line, the entity uses aggressive framing—or coordinates with third parties—to paint that competitor as…

It also helps greatly if you can leverage the opportunity window of a temper tantrum being thrown by an incompetent, petulant, volatile, and impulsive President.

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Post by brookst »

hakrgrl wrote: post #252
Koffiepoeder wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean attacking a second country in the top 10 oil/gas reserve ranking in mere weeks, while threatening to invade a third?

I mean the entire country is tired of women getting murdered over not wearing hijabs

While true, that is not in the top 10 motivations for the US attack. If regime change is successful, the US will be perfectly satisfied with a puppet government that has exactly the same treatment of women, as long as the oil flows.

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Post by sillyfluke »

dewey wrote: post #232
ChicagoDave wrote: post #226

Here’s my take: - when I saw Altman driving a multimillion dollar car while OpenAI was still a nonprofit, all of his scientists left to start rival firms, and the details of why they tried to fire him were legit, I dumped ChatGPT and moved to the new company - Anthropic. - The Pro Max $200/month subscription has uncapped my workflow to where I’ve created several substantial and complex applications in compressed time…

> when I saw Altman driving a multimillion dollar car while OpenAI was still a nonprofit If that would be a first time founder that would be much more of a red flag than for someone’s who’s already beyond rich and powerful even before OpenAI became a thing.

If Altman didn't go round cringe-inducingly saying he doesn't (relatively) have much of nor care about money and how he doesn't have a stake in OpenAI while plotting his power-hungry moves, and publish equally repulsive articles like "missionaries over mercenaries" while acting like the latter, then you might have hade a point. But given all that, sorry no.

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Post by brookst »

cedws wrote: post #79

Next week Anthropic will do something evil and everyone will be moving back to OpenAI. Crazy thought but maybe we should regulate AI instead of relying on the hegemony of three companies to police themselves.

What does “regulate AI” even mean?

The applications it can be used for? That doesn’t work, it’s the governments that want abusive applications.

The size of models? That doesn’t work, it just discourages MoE.

Access by consumers? Great, now it’s just for megacorps and the military.

What, exactly, would successful regulation look like?

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Post by mpalmer »

echion wrote: post #282
mpalmer wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those of us whose intelligence is unaffected by reading a single extra letter are keeping you in our thoughts.

Those of us whose appreciation of da Vinci's mastery are not affected by him painting the Mona Lisa with a moustache are keeping you in our thoughts. (non-snark: your reply is clever and got a smile but I still think the GP post is overriding: no need for the distraction (c.f.: these asides) of the "S(c)am" swipe)

Who's distracting who? How many people do you think noticed that letter C without your help?

I wonder how much esteem you hold for Sig. da Vinci if you equate his work with HN comments.

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Post by brookst »

Ylpertnodi wrote: post #294
notahacker wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but the reality is that the United States where these companies are headquartered currently has the exact opposite policy: Anthropic has been blacklisted by the DoW (and replaced by OpenAI) because the US administration thought that the very limited amount of self-regulation Anthropic insisted on was going too far.

Isn't it still the DoD, untill congress changes the name?

Deadnaming is bad behavior. If they are calling themselves DoW, DoW it is.

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Post by ChicagoDave »

rozab wrote: post #253
ChicagoDave wrote: post #226

Here’s my take: - when I saw Altman driving a multimillion dollar car while OpenAI was still a nonprofit, all of his scientists left to start rival firms, and the details of why they tried to fire him were legit, I dumped ChatGPT and moved to the new company - Anthropic. - The Pro Max $200/month subscription has uncapped my workflow to where I’ve created several substantial and complex applications in compressed time…

> Claude Code in the last three months has finally made it possible to dump Windows and buy a loaded MacBook Pro What does this mean?

My entire dev ways of working were Windows-centric. Visual Studio was a core tool. C# was the only platform I was deeply experienced in using. Xcode was/is alien technology to me.

Claude Code erases all of those constraints and the M4/5 chips are blazing fast.

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brookst wrote: post #299
sdevonoes wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They ask a phone number to sign up. WTF? I signed up with openai a while ago and I didn’t need to provide any phone number…. I wanna delete my open ai account, but then I cannot use claude without a phone?

It’s a way to mitigate bot accounts. Arguably not the best way, arguably not the right cost/benefit, but all of these services see massive bot traffic and are in a constant battle.

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