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This has dampened my opinion on Anthropic quite a bit. It's difficult to take their marketing for AI as an empowering technology seriously when they are quite clear in their new deployments that they do not mean empowering for you , but empowering for them and organizations that are in their (or the US government's, despite Anthropics performative disagreements with the administration) good graces. You are allowed to…
Can anyone help me understand why this particular issue is any different than Anthropic training its models with its brand of moral judgement since day one? I've always been turned off by their particular stances on things they bake into their models that steer users in directions. Maybe this is just a different set of people now realizing that Anthropic does this and has always done this? Do not forget that this com…
In the same way I don't want to buy meat that weighs less than what the label says, I also do not want to pay for a frontier model that can be secretly nerfed to an out-of-date model for any reason. In some cases, it's incredibly important that the code that I am producing is as secure as it can be.
I should be safe in my expectation that I am receiving the product that I have purchased, as advertised, regardless of the reason. It is pretty disappointing that they have fully ceded any high ground they had claim to with this clandestine behavior. Not that I expected much from any of these companies. They're led by the new robber barons.
1. https://www.usa.gov/agencies/office-of-weights-and-measures
I develop some deep learning models. They don't compete with Anthropic, nor are they language models. They mostly enable mathematical optimization systems to approximate actual the actual physics of radio propagation models with a fraction of the latency/compute of a high resolution simulator. Technically that should be safe for me to use with Claude Code, but how the fuck am I supposed to know? You're degrading/malw…
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Basically all critiques of Anthropic's policy moves on these topics boil down to people not believing the fundamental concerns are real, and often then going a step further to conclude that Anthropic doesn't actually believe their concerns either. If you believe Anthropic believes what they say they do, all of it makes sense.
Even if you believe the concerns have merit, it's hard not to be cynical about people (e.g. Anthropic leadership) paying lip service to those concerns while so obviously leveraging their power and wealth (which depend, by the way, on accelerating the world toward those hypothetical "concerning" scenarios as fast as possible ) to position themselves such that they will become unimaginably rich er if things go their wa…
Yes, this dynamic is exactly the one that anyone who's concerned about AI is concerned about. I don't know why you state this as if it's evidence against the concerns lol. Someone being concerned about the incentives of a situation doesn't de facto make them immune to those incentives, obviously.
The implication that someone who's concerned about an arms race dynamic could simply opt out of the system that produces that dynamic is simply confused about what arms race dynamics are. The entire point is that it's a trap, and it's a trap even if you know it's a trap, and even if you don't like that it's a trap. There's nothing dishonest or hypocritical about being in the trap: it is literally a trap –– that is what it does and why it is bad!
I'm confused by these comments that imply people believe Dario et al are "pure-of-heart Chosen Ones destined to lead us around the great filter." Who? I've never seen it. And any AI-doomer is probably of the opinion that the entire question of Dario's or anyone else's personal moral character is 99% irrelevant. Because, again, it's a trap. The dynamics at play are so much larger than whether someone irks people for their lecturing tone. I would much rather give my money to Dario, who seems like a generally good person, versus Sama, who seems like a complete snake, but I'm under no illusions that doing so changes the fundamental dynamics that are steering us to AI doom. I doubt anyone does.
And yes, obviously they are angling toward being the winner who takes it all. That is literally the trap. If you believe what they believe, yelling "let's cooperate!" while hurdling towards the finish line and tripping your competitors is the only reasonable thing to do. That is the problem.
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"Only I can save us". It's a classic tragedy and cautionary tale. The idea Anthropic was going to speed run AI so they could control the usage and make it "safe" for humanity was never altruistic; it was a HUGE FUCKING RED FLAG.
Benevolent dictators work. But, looking to a US corp to be one? That’s daft.
If you define work as "literacy", they no doubt succeeded. But if you consider the people (and children) they tortured, raped, and murdered, suddenly literacy doesn't seem so important.
In my opinion, LLMs should be subject to regulation via the Office of Weights and Measures[1]. In the same way I don't want to buy meat that weighs less than what the label says, I also do not want to pay for a frontier model that can be secretly nerfed to an out-of-date model for any reason. In some cases, it's incredibly important that the code that I am producing is as secure as it can be. I should be safe in my e…
This has dampened my opinion on Anthropic quite a bit. It's difficult to take their marketing for AI as an empowering technology seriously when they are quite clear in their new deployments that they do not mean empowering for you , but empowering for them and organizations that are in their (or the US government's, despite Anthropics performative disagreements with the administration) good graces. You are allowed to…
And we subsidize them (AI companies in general) with our tax dollars.
In my opinion, LLMs should be subject to regulation via the Office of Weights and Measures[1]. In the same way I don't want to buy meat that weighs less than what the label says, I also do not want to pay for a frontier model that can be secretly nerfed to an out-of-date model for any reason. In some cases, it's incredibly important that the code that I am producing is as secure as it can be. I should be safe in my e…
Nice (accidental?) pun.
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Lol, I can name 3 specific jobs within my own company (of My company itself (possible only with AI) does the work of at least several dozen people across my hundred customers or so. Those jobs are now automated away. Does that mean you're lying , or just overly confident (and wrong) in your speculations? FWIW, I wouldn't put Sam Altman in the category of "earnest." I'm not sure if you just aren't aware that Anthropic…
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I'm not sure there's anything "to get." But given your level of curiosity it's not surprising.
Web3 was absolute horseshit (and always was), so if you're blending AI with that based on the similarly grandiose claims and the extremely annoying boosterism, I think you should try hitting reset and engaging with LLMs from a cleaner slate.