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Comment by mattnewton

1 day ago

Then I’m confused about what is confusing you haha.

The absurd language is meant to highlight the absurdity they feel over the vague terms in their sparse communication with anthropic. It worked for me.

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fluoridation  1 day ago

Because what is meant by "this organization has been disabled" is fairly obvious. The object in Anthropic's systems belonging to the class Organization has changed to the state Disabled, so the call cannot be executed. Anthropic itself is not an organization in this sense, nor is Google, so I would say that referring to them as "non-disabled organizations" is an equivocation fallacy. Besides that, I can't tell if it's a joke, if it's some kind of statement, or what is being communicated. To me it's just obtuseness for the sake of itself.

  • mattnewton  21 hours ago

    It’s a joke because they do not see themselves as an organization, they bought a personal account, were banned without explanation and their only communication refers to them as a “disabled organization”.

    Anthropic and Google are organizations, and so an “un disabled organization” here is using that absurdly vague language as a way to highlight how bad their error message was. It’s obtuseness to show how obtuse the error message was to them.

    • saghm  16 hours ago

      Some things are obtuse but still clear to everyone despite the indirection, like the error message they got back. Their description of what caused it is obtuse but based on this thread is not clear to quite a few people (myself included). It's not dunking on the error message to reuse the silly but clear terminology in a way that's borderline incoherent.