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Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

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Anthropic: "Our new models are so mighty and dangerous, we'll limit access." US admin: "Thanks for the warning, we'll do the same then" This was an epic (and deserved) own-goal. ( btw heres what most likely happened, they refused to fix a jailbreak: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171 )

> what most likely happened

sounds super biased

UPD just look up "anthropic david sacks"

> epic

are you unironically happy about what is happening right now?

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#72
post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately it's not widely distributed information, if you care so much about shedding a light on Amodei's shadiness it would help a lot folks like me to understand what you are talking about. I know of Sam Altman's shenanigans from way before OpenAI (I used to be on reddit a lot more when `sama` appeared over there) but I have no idea about Amodei. Help us out because otherwise it really does read as yet another…

Despite already being familiar with such a person (in the form of Altman), for some reason you are trying to find minor reasons that they are different people, and it’s distracting you from the major reasons that they are actually the same people. I can’t offer any more than that, because it’s all I have. It’s about observation not conspiracy.

> I can’t offer any more than that, because it’s all I have

So this all boils down to you think he must necessarily be like Sam Altman because he runs an AI lab, and so you're extrapolating from that?

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#74
post #46

Anecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration. I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic. The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown. Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time.…

I see it exactly the same, self hosted LLM will be the future. They may not be SOTA, but it is better to have a Trabant in your garage than being denied use of shared Ferrari, because somebody outside of your control had hissy fit.

I like a good car analogy, but it doesn't hold up in this case. What am I going to do with a Ferrari that's durable and makes me money, the same way that Mythos/Fable can output me better code than Opus 4.x? I mean I guess I could take a picture of me in a Ferrari, and then when I show off that picture but can't produce the Ferrari, I look dumb, but Mythos generated code/artifacts are still downloadable and runnable, if you got far enough before the cut off. Judging from the quality/availability of the few days we had it, it's a shared resource anyway. The usage limits were too low to give everything to Fable to do.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#76
post #46

Anecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration. I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic. The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown. Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time.…

I think they’re going to have problems, because I’m sure they have a lot of foreign employees and it’s insane to think they now have to block them all from using their best models.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#77
post #36

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I believe that Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) was born in Italy, and is already an EU citizen. He is probably reviewing many exit options today.

You're lying.

Wow. Calling out blatant lies and got downvoted four times with no comment behind that. Peak HN experience.

Also that comment got indexed by Google already.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're lying.

Wow. Calling out blatant lies and got downvoted four times with no comment behind that. Peak HN experience. Also that comment got indexed by Google already.

Hey, I obviously could not have downvoted you.

I had remembered Amodei's Italian heritage and assumed that he was born in Italy. I've forgotten where I read this.

I was wrong.

Re: Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight

#79
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow. Calling out blatant lies and got downvoted four times with no comment behind that. Peak HN experience. Also that comment got indexed by Google already.

Hey, I obviously could not have downvoted you. I had remembered Amodei's Italian heritage and assumed that he was born in Italy. I've forgotten where I read this. I was wrong.

No worries. These days people downvote for any reason so I'm getting used to it.
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