Comment by kristofferR
1 day ago
This is pretty insane. A model so powerful they felt that releasing it would create a netsec tsunami if released publicly. AGI isn't here yet, but we don't need to get there for massive societal effects. How long will they hold off, especially as competitors are getting closer to their releases of equally powerful models?
OpenAI did the same thing with GPT3 trying to scare people into thinking it would end the internet. OpenAI even reached out to someone who reproduced a weaker version of GPT3 and convinced him to change his mind about releasing it publicly due to how much "harm" it would cause.
These claims of how much harm the models will cause is always overblown.
OpenAI is not Anthropic, these companies behave as polar opposites
Anthropic came out of OpenAI. The founding members of Anthropic worked on GPT3.
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Sure, but the GPT3 thing was mostly hype without stuff to back it up. On the other hand - the reported numbers on specific benchmarks here are insane, I don't doubt that it will have a major impact if it actually is that much more powerful than Opus, and I'd doubt they'd outright lie about benchmark results.