Comment by zzzeek
3 days ago
It's still marketing , "Claude is being used for evil and for good ! How will YOU survive without your own agents ? (Subtext 'It's practically sentient !')"
3 days ago
It's still marketing , "Claude is being used for evil and for good ! How will YOU survive without your own agents ? (Subtext 'It's practically sentient !')"
It's marketing, but if it's the truth, isn't it a public good to release information about this?
Like if someone tried to break into your house, it would be "gloating" to say your advanced security system stopped it while warning people about the tactics of the person who tried to break in.
If in the next page over you sell advanced security systems yes it'd be suspicious and weird, which is the case here.
They’re not allowed to market their product on their own website blog? That includes half of all company blog posts ever on here
reminds me of the YouTube ads I get that are like "Warning: don't do this new weight loss trick unless you have to lose over 50 pounds, you will end up losing too much weight!". As if it's so effective it's dangerous.
I remain convinced the steady steam of OpenAI employees who allegedly quit because AI was "too dangerous" for a couple months was an orchestrated marketing campaign as well.
Ilya Sutskever out there as a ronin marketing agent, doing things like that commencement address he gave that was all about how dangerously powerful AI is
Hmm. I can see someone wanting to leave of their own volition. New job, moving to another place, whatever.
Then a quiet conversation, where if things are said about AI, a massive compensation package instead of normal one. Maybe including it as stock.
Along with an NDA.
I just had 5.1 do something incredibly brain dead in "extended thinking" mode because I know what I asked it is not in the training data. So it just fudged and made things up because thinking is exactly what it can not do.
It seems like LLMs are at the same time a giant leap in natural language processing, useful in some situations and the biggest scam of all time.
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I think it can be both.
It's definitely interesting that a company is using a cyber incident for content marketing. Haven't seen that before.
I think that’s very common in cybersecurity
e.g. John MacAfee used computer viruses in the 80’s as marketing, which is how he made a fortune
They were real, like this is, but it is also marketing
Yes, but it’s usually cyber security companies doing this and not companies that were affected by a breach let’s say.
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Apparently if you're sufficiently cynical, everything is marketing? Resistance to hype turns into "it's all part of a conspiracy."