Comment by xpe

Maybe, maybe not. What evidence do you have? What other motivations did you consider? Do you have insider access into Anthropic’s intentions and decision making processes?

People have a tendency to tell an oversimplified narrative.

The way I see it, there are many plausible explanations, so I’m quite uncertain as to the mix of motivations. Given this, I pay more attention to the likely effects.

My guess is that all most of us here on HN (on the outside) can really justify saying would be “this looks like virtue signaling but there may be more to it; I can’t rule out other motivations”