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Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by ghxst »

aithrowawaycomm wrote: post #58
itkovian_ wrote: post #46

Incredible how low usage is among lawyers. Does anyone have any intuition on why?

Part of it is selection bias, Claude is much less general-audiences than ChatGPT. But any lawyers using LLMs in 2025 deserve to be disbarred: "A Major Law Firm's ChatGPT Fail" https://davidlat.substack.com/p/morgan-and-morgan-order-to-s... "Lawyer cites six cases made up by ChatGPT" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/lawyer-cited-6-f... "AI 'hallucinations' by ChatGPT end up costing B.C. lawyer" https://www.…

> But any lawyers using LLMs in 2025 deserve to be disbarred

In what year would you think it will be acceptable and why?

LLMs are tools, I don't see anything wrong with using them in any occupation as long as the user is aware of the limitations.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by ryao »

Their promise not to train on the conversations seemed to imply that conversations were private. It is disconcerting that they were not. The extent to which you need to look for loopholes in privacy guarantees these days is amazing.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by rvnx »

Eextra953 wrote: post #70
raldi wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anthropic is a Public Benefit Corporation whose governance is very different from a typical company in that it doesn’t put shareholder ROI above all else. A majority of its board seats are reserved for people who hold no equity whatsoever and whose explicit mandate is to look out for humanity. https://www.anthropic.com/news/the-long-term-benefit-trust https://time.com/6983420/anthropic-structure-openai-incentiv...

This is why I cancelled my chatgpt subscription and moved to claude. Its kinda silly, but I feel like the products are about equivalent for my use case so I'd rather do business with a company that is acting in good (better?) faith.

In the case they don't get high salaries from this activity, there is also a solution. The next step in ~10 years could be to offer their services to governments to offer "automated court decisions".

Then the people who funded / trained this "justice" out of their good heart, would actually have leverage, in terms of concrete power.

It's a much more subtle way to capture power, if you can replace the judges with your software.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by s_dev »

ajmurmann wrote: post #27
AnEro wrote: post #26

Everyone in the comments seem to not like the article or see it as a waste of time. I just don't think we are the audience they wanted for this, I think they want to show the average business owner the realistic potential and public (journalists that will distill this later) they are aware of the impacts and what to expect. I don't read it as fear AI, I read change is happening because of AI.

They also call out how it's more used for augmentation rather than full automation which will address some concerns the public has.

Tools empower those with knowledge further than those without knowledge. The fact that people were concerned layman were simply going to be able to take on experienced programmers at their day jobs was farcical.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by flurie »

nonchalantsui wrote: post #65
idiotsecant wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Put this and 'dont be evil' and 5 dollars in my hand and I'll give you a cup of coffee.

Coffee for $5? That's a steal in this economy!

The coffee is made with the assistance of AI, which means some nonzero portion will be something other than coffee, but at least it means every sip is an adventure.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by neom »

ryao wrote: post #82

Their promise not to train on the conversations seemed to imply that conversations were private. It is disconcerting that they were not. The extent to which you need to look for loopholes in privacy guarantees these days is amazing.

Their privacy policy is EXTREMELY easy to interpret:

https://www.anthropic.com/legal/privacy

They use personal data “to improve the Services and conduct research.” Your chat interactions (that is, your "Inputs and Outputs") are included in the data they collect. and: "If you include personal data in your Inputs, we will collect that information and this information may be reproduced in your Outputs."

You don't need to look for loopholes, it's spelled out plainly.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by mistrial9 »

noah_buddy wrote: post #79
lblume wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that strongly underestimates the impact LLMs, especially reasoning models, have on how code is written today.

Educate me. I find them useful but they are less so when you try to do something novel. To me, it seems like fancy regurgitation with some novel pattern matching but not quite intuition/reasoning per se. At the base of LLM reasoning and knowledge is a whole corpus of reasoning and knowledge. I am not quite convinced that LLMs will breach the confines of that corpus and the logical implications of the data there. No “…

this is one example https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by rmah »

danvoell wrote: post #78

I agree this is the biggest issue. Too many folks are passing off the potential behind this stuff...this might replace the person beneath me but... As a one person manufacturing business, I've augmented 5 positions that I otherwise would have needed to hire. The end game of this is 10% of the population will be able to produce the goods for 100% of the population. That's the problem statement.

This is already almost true. Only 8% of the American workforce is in manufacturing and about 29% of China's (and about 1/7th is exports to the US). I'd guess that that somewhere around 12% to 15% are needed to manufacture all goods for an advanced economy. Another 2% or so for agriculture. Not really much more to go.

Re: The Anthropic Economic Index

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Post by throwaway954399 »

brap wrote: post #13

Seems like Anthropic has too much money on their hands and are looking for ways to spend it. It’s surprising to see lean AI startups accumulate fat so quickly. Usually this sort of wheel spinning is reserved for large corporations. And it’s not just them. To me this trend screams “valuations are too high”, and maybe hints at “progress might start to stagnate soon”.

And yet they don't have the resources to let job applicants know when their application was unsuccessful. You just get an email after you applied saying: "We may not reach out unless we think you are a strong fit for the role you applied to. In the meantime, we truly appreciate your patience throughout our hiring process." They also tell you not to use AI in the application.
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