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Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge

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Post by keeda »

shimman wrote: post #703
keeda wrote: post #687

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cursor and Claude Code are amongst the fastest selling products in history. Cursor: 1 Billion ARR in 24 months -- https://andrew.ooo/posts/cursor-fastest-growing-saas-1b-arr/ Claude Code: 2.5 Billion ARR in 10 months -- https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-raises-30-billion-s...

Ah yes the mythical "valuations" based on unicorn dust and pixie horns (note that they don't define what a month actually is, my hunch is they take their best week then multiply it by x52).

Valuations?! The "R" in "ARR" stands for "Revenue." Valuations are something entirely different and much higher.

And if you suggest that these and other AI companies are lying about revenues or fudging the numbers, it is corroborated from THREE other angles: the investors in these startups, the payment processor for these startups, and the people allocating budgets for the products from these startups! This thread (and its parents with links) is relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46773252

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Post by econ »

EagnaIonat wrote: post #708
econ wrote: post #679

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drone pilots don't get any info about their target, certainly not enough to make a judgement call. If they object (or burn out) someone else is put in the chair. People are conscripted, they put on the uniform and become legitimate targets? It might as well be a robot doing the shooting. Same difference.

It's not the same. The pilot becomes responsible for those outcomes. For example indiscriminately killing civilians for example is a war crime. Its easier to get an AI to commit war crimes than humans.

Perhaps but if the difference is significant I don't know. Everything changes then we try stretch rhetoric from stabbing someone with a sword to hypersonic missiles? We might hold the pilot responsible if they erase a building but I'm far less comfortable blaming them. We know the targets are actually picked by computers using metadata. The difference gets increasingly vague.

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Post by jlaternman »

latexr wrote: post #151

> “We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models,” How magnanimous! They are only thinking of others, you see. They are rejecting their safety pledge for you . > “We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.” Oops, said the quiet part out loud that it’s all about money. “I mean, if al…

Actually this makes sense to me.

It sounds like they are in a cutthroat market, and realised they couldn't afford to stake that principle. And that it wouldn't matter if they did – it would just assure them being handicapped in a field where no others followed suit.

Better hills to die on.

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