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Comment by dghlsakjg

5 days ago

OTOH: “our product is so good it was banned for being too good” is the best advertising possible. OpenAI would kill to get that.

I’m not falling over myself to test out Sonnet 5, but I am very interested in Fable.

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usef-  5 days ago

I really don't think this is effective advertising, reactions have been negative virtually everywhere.

The security bugs were real (see the Open Source projects struggling to keep up) so I think gradual rollout was sensible originally before the ban. But people have always resented safety steps.

  • dghlsakjg  3 days ago

    Their valuation and revenue don't reflect that.

    For the purposes of technical excellence, you are absolutely correct that this has been bad. For the purposes of money-getting, this has very much been a case of "there's no such thing as bad publicity".

    Anthropic is very much in the money-getting business right now.

bel8  5 days ago

> OpenAI would kill to get that.

I have news for you, from 5 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690101

"U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

  • sigmar  5 days ago

    that's an obsequious Altman, not their model being banned for being too good

  • dghlsakjg  5 days ago

    "W have to go through a regulatory approval process like everyone else" is so much less sexy than "Our model was so powerful that it got banned by the government after a few hours and now all our competitors have to go through a regulatory process invented because of us"

    • bel8  5 days ago

      There's nothing sexy about it. From the get go they were accused of FUD drama and that it backfired as predicted. Now what I see in reality is that Anthropic mostly reaped more resentment from their poor marketing attempt. And their model is basically useless or unreliable from being lobotomized by guardrails.

      Subscription folks barely have access to the model. Some report a single prompt before hitting weekly limit. And that's when it works instead of downgrading.

      If that is a first movers play, it's a disastrous one.

      How sexy do you think this guy finds Anthropic now?

      > Today I told Sonnet (!) to use a browser MCP to enter a username and password for the project it is working on, it told me that it can't do that because it violates its security protocol.

      > This worked fine before. I love Claude, I have stuck with it even through people saying Codex is better but this is definitely getting to be the last straw.

      Meanwhile I can tell GLM 5.2 to decompile and crack anything I want with tools like IDA MCP and packet sniffing and it just works. Let alone code.