Comment by moralestapia

“We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models,” Anthropic’s chief science officer Jared Kaplan told TIME in an exclusive interview. “We didn't really feel, with the rapid advance of AI, that it made sense for us to make unilateral commitments … if competitors are blazing ahead.”

What a gigantic, absolute, pieces of s...

Not because of what they did, which is classic startup playbook but because of the cynicism involved, particularly after all the fuzz they've been making for years about safety. The company itself was founded, allegedly, due to pursuing that as a mission as opposed to OpenAI.

"Hi all, that was a lie, we never really cared." They only missed the "dumb f***s" remark, a la Facebook.