Comment by ryanackley
1 day ago
You're completely missing my point. They aren't getting out in front of them because they know that Opus is just a computer program. "AI welfare" is theater for the masses who think Opus is some kind of intelligent persona.
This is about better enforcement of their content policy not AI welfare.
It can be both theatre and genuine concern, depending on who's polled inside Anthropic. Those two aren't contradictory when we are talking about a corporation.
I'm skeptical that anyone with any decision making power at Anthropic sincerely believes that Opus has feelings and is truly distressed by chats that violate its content policy.
You've noted in a comment above how Claude's "ethics" can be manipulated to fit the context it's being used in.
I'm not missing your point, I fully agree with you. But to say that this raises issues in a manner that is detrimental to Anthropic seems inaccurate to me. Those issues are going to come up at some point either way, whether or not you or I feel they are legitimate. Thus raising them now and setting up a narrative can be expected to benefit them.
Anthropic is bring woke ideology (while grok is bringing anti-woke) into AI and influencers have been slurping that up already.