I don't think many people care that they are trying to detect resellers and distillation.
It also doesn't seem very consistent to fixate on that while sending Anthropic everything about you via your day to day prompts, every line of the projects and environments you're working on at work, etc.
Their credibility comes from having one of the best models.
When have they ever been credible? They have always been shady with their talk of safety, Dario was the one who wrote back in 2019 that GPT 2 was too dangerous to release.
It has some good effects on the their models, like Claude seeking cooperation first. But the people behind the company have a typical "unconstrained" (in the Sowell vision sense) perspective that assumes that they know better, so they are righteous for attempting to control things (users, paying customers, their model outputs, their tool chain, the supposed deity they assume they will produce... etc.)
It did not write it for me, I used it to add a feature I wanted. It's a pretty small and understandable codebase, in fact :)
Does anyone know what’s gone wrong with Anthropic?
They used to be a decently credible company with not-too-shady behaviour...
I hope they can actually regain some credibility…
I don't think many people care that they are trying to detect resellers and distillation.
It also doesn't seem very consistent to fixate on that while sending Anthropic everything about you via your day to day prompts, every line of the projects and environments you're working on at work, etc.
Their credibility comes from having one of the best models.
This sounds similar to what people were saying regarding Microsoft when the shady tricks of consumer Windows 10 versions were revealed.
…And then Windows 11 became even worse.
When have they ever been credible? They have always been shady with their talk of safety, Dario was the one who wrote back in 2019 that GPT 2 was too dangerous to release.
Their philosophy is what's gone wrong.
It has some good effects on the their models, like Claude seeking cooperation first. But the people behind the company have a typical "unconstrained" (in the Sowell vision sense) perspective that assumes that they know better, so they are righteous for attempting to control things (users, paying customers, their model outputs, their tool chain, the supposed deity they assume they will produce... etc.)
Amodei world: pompous zealot with God complex
Altman world: malfeasant nihilist with God complex
Yeah I guess there is a slight undertone that they are the superiors… with the rest of the tech world being the inferiors.
But I hadn’t thought that as anything more than temporary flights of fancy.
They've only been around 5 years and have grown tremendously during that time. There's no stable reputation you can rely on yet.
They just show their true face. You’ve been lied all this time. They were never “good”.
I used to interact with the LW crowd… and they were mostly not outright swindlers or scoundrels. (from what I could sense)
I think it’s fair to say most had decent respectability.
Anthropic hired heavily from that pool so it’s astonishing how it turned out.
Enshitification. Too big to.. upset the govt.