Comment by Buttons840
15 hours ago
I don't think Anthropic is a saint that will never do anything unethical. I don't think ChatGPT is any better or worse.
But I do think my cancelling ChatGPT so I can try Claude, at this time, sends the message I want to send, which is why I did it.
It's also good to demonstrate to these companies that we're willing to move. If these companies know their entire userbase will just pack up and move at the first controversy, there wont be any controversies.
Consumer actions are meaningless here. If Altman can become Trump’s new best friend (can’t wait to watch the Altman/Musk drama), there will be so much public money directed toward OpenAI that they can stop wasting their time on the puny people.
I also canceled my subscription, and acknowledge it won’t make a difference. Feels like the early days of Facebook when people threatened to quit if they didn’t bring back the old design.
How's claude for non coding tasks? For example using it as a google substitute for trivial questions, like a recipe or a phone review.
Genuinely asking, because I might follow your steps.
Claude cannot search Reddit so it is dreadful for search cases.
Not including Reddit probably boosts its IQ 25 points.
It's been very good for me. I don't even open claude.ai or or use Kagi Assistant even though I'm paying for it and have access to basically all the models. I interact pretty much exclusively via Claude Code. My recipe question turned into a recipe tracking project and recommendation engine designed to help force me to try making new things that expand my skills. I've also had good luck getting gluten / dairy alternatives for recipes since that's now a fact of life I have to deal with via my wife.
For product reviews, you've definitely got to make sure it's searching for sources and not just relying on outdated data. Some brands used to be very good and are today just coasting on their reputation. This is where phrases like "research this deeply" help it break out of the baked in biases.
And a nice bonus is that Claude is way better than ChatGPT right now anyway
How so, it’s unstable like floating ice.
Very very large floating ice is fairly stable
I just changed last night and honestly I can't tell much of a difference.
I'm not really complaining, it seems fine, but I'm not seeing the "way better" part that people keep saying.
It's not sycophantic and has a much better "voice."
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I haven't used ChatGPT but I'm a heavy Claude user and today I was discussing the attack on Iran and I mentioned how stupid it was that Iran had no effective air defense when the US and Israel have the #1 and #4 best air forces in the world and it response ended with this which I thought is funny:
"A country that declares "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" multiple times weekly for 45 years probably should have invested in the ability to defend itself against America and Israel."
> I don't think Anthropic is a saint that will never do anything unethical. I don't think ChatGPT is any better or worse.
I sort of agree and think that over a long horizon, Open weights models are going to be the best / are the best
I do think only a fraction of companies might do what Anthropic did here. There must have been quite a significant pressure on them to fold but they didn't. So to me, I'd rather try to do atleast something to show companies that people do care about such things and its best if we have at the very least some unconditional morals which are not for sale no matter the price.
I think that we can still have disagreements with Anthropic on matters and I certainly still have some disagreements about their thoughts on Open Models for example but in all regards I would trust them as more trustworthy than OpenAI imho.
That being said, I do think that its worth telling that given that I don't have good GPU, I am gonna stop using Chatgpt as well and will use either Claude/(Kimi?) as well like many people are doing too. I do think that it might be the path going forward.
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