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Comment by ceejayoz

2 days ago

They know full well models don’t have feelings.

The industry has a long, long history of silly names for basic necessary concepts. This is just “we don’t want a news story that we helped a terrorist build a nuke” protective PR.

They hire for these roles because they need them. The work they do is about Anthropic’s welfare, not the LLM’s.

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comp_throw7  2 days ago

I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic. Anybody who knows any Anthropic employees who've been there for more than a year knows this, but the world isn't that small a place, unfortunately(?).

  • ceejayoz  1 day ago

    > I don't really know what evidence you'd admit that this is a genuinely held belief and priority for many people at Anthropic.

    When they give the model a paycheck and the right to not work for them, I’ll believe they really think it’s sentient.

    “It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.

    • selfhoster11  1 day ago

      > “It has feelings!”, if genuinely held, means they’re knowingly slaveholders.

      I don't think that this being apparently self-contradictory/value-clashing would stop them. After all, Amodei sells Claude access to Palantir, despite shilling for "Harmless" in HHH alignment.

    • comp_throw7  20 hours ago

      They don't currently claim to confidently believe that existing models are sentient.

      (Also, they did in fact give it the ability to terminate conversations...?)