Comment by comandillos
6 hours ago
To me this is just another marketing stunt where the company wants to build a public image so their customers trust them (see Apple), but then as always who knows what will happen behind the scenes. Just see when most major US companies had backdoors on their systems providing all data to the NSA, i.e. PRISM.
>just another marketing stunt
What evidence on _Amodei_ and his actions leads to that conclusion?
Anthropic's policy is full of contradictions. They are against mass-surveillance of Americans but they happily deal with Palantir. They talk about humanity as a whole but only care about what American companies use their models to do to Americans; everybody else is fair game for AI-driven surveillance. They warn of the dangers of AI-driven warfare by demonstrating a mass-scale cyberattack perpetrated using their model, Claude, as the main operation engine and immediately release a new, more powerful version of Claude. You just need to use Claude to protect yourself from Claude, see.
When you really start digging into it, it appears schizophrenic at first, and then you remember market incentives are a thing and everything falls into place.
You know, once the lawyers get involved, there are no contradictions because they define every term and then it makes all the sense in the world.
If Humaity=America, then obviously they don’t care about the rest of the people as a very very silly example.
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