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Comment by lazide

15 hours ago

Additionally, even if there is a guild - no guild ever let a vendor pick and choose what their capabilities were, that would be insanely dumb.

Vendors choose what capabilities they create and sell literally all day every day.

  • A more charitable interpretation might be that a guild would not be expected to passively allow such a situation to continue to exist. I think you'd expect a guild to directly contract for the desired tools or failing that to move into production themselves.

    • Sure! And Anthropic isn't preventing other people from making offensive cyber models.

      "The guild" is absolutely free to go seek other vendors if Anthropic declines to sell to them.

  • You should read that sentence as

    > Additionally, even if there is a guild - no guild ever let a vendor pick and choose what [the guild's] capabilities were, that would be insanely dumb.

    • But that's not true. Again: Vendors absolutely pick and choose what their customers' capabilities are. Regardless of whether "the guild allows them to." Guilds can't force people to make or sell tools against their will – obviously.

      The analog you're trying to describe doesn't exist, which is Anthropic saying nobody else can make and sell an offensive model to "the guild."

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