Comment by Metacelsus
12 hours ago
>Anthropic gates usage related to biology and related research. In their latest threat intelligence report they talk about how they detected and banned bad actors using the Claude line of models to do some scary stuff. Credit to them, this is a slippery slope and they seem to do a good job of detecting and banning misuse. But squint at what is happening though. The cure-all is gated for you and me, but Anthropic hires biologists, sets up wet labs and wants the discoveries for themselves. I alluded to this in my previous post.
As a biologist, this is the most annoying thing about Anthropic for me. If they really cared about improving health they would set up a trusted-access program so that biologists can use Mythos (et al) safely. Instead they're trying to monopolize biology.
They have such a trusted access program. "Life Sciences Verification Program: The LSVP is designed so that life sciences professionals can use Claude Mythos 5.1 with safeguards designed for professional research and development activities (while all other safeguards remain in place). In partnership with the US government, we have enrolled our first participants, and we plan to expand access to this program to the broader life sciences community." https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1
These "access gates" and export controls are going to look hilariously quaint in a few years.
It reminds me of the export controls on PlayStation 2 consoles because it was deemed that 6 gigaflops was a "dangerous" amount of computer power, and it couldn't be allowed to fall into the hands of opposing militaries: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-17-fi-20482...
Now the phone in my pocket does 2,500 gigaflops on battery power, and nobody seems interested in banning its export because of that.
To be fair, my understanding of these arguments is that they’re about deltas and not about raw numbers.
I don’t agree with them, but I don’t think it was the raw compute power as much as it was maintaining the _delta_ in compute power.
I'm mildly sad you didn't use 2,500 jiggaflops
Lol. The person you are responding to literally had to google (or ask AI) one question and they would get the answer.
The program started two weeks ago
> Instead they're trying to monopolize biology.
That’s the recurring theme with these companies. They are not there to serve anybody else but only themselves. They let you use their infrastructure so they can collect all the knowledge and data, and then they take it from you to reap all the benefits and profits.
Yes exactly!!!