Comment by ChrisGreenHeur

7 hours ago

If you buy an iPhone do you also get a book of the names of the engineers?

The title says "Claude discovers" not "Anthropic discovers". The latter would be fair since they seemed to have funded the research. "Claude discovers" is just marketing hype.

"Apple" word roughly covers them all. No one says that iPhone comes from Foxconn, despite Foxconn making them (or whoever is making them). Same with LLMs and people running them.

That's just totally different. In research, you have attribution. Mainly because if you're an employee you generally understand that you're trading work for coin and don't expect to be mentioned in some way. Perhaps very few industries do it, like movie credits etc.

This would be the equivalent of "the crane built the skyscraper" or "the bulldozer produced timber". Yes in raw joules they probably did most of the work but you see it's not the usual way we do things.

Actually, I would like that for every single manufactured object around me. Not a physical book of course. But knowing who contributed and how to the construction of the fork I am about to eat with is definitely something I wish we had.

If I'm using objects whose construction involved child exploitation and benefit pedocriminal CEO and stakeholders, I should be aware of it.

If I'm using objects which where produced by a great place to work cooperative filled with happy consentent and well remunerated adults, I should know it.

I would also like to be given lesson or humility against the complexity of building every single manufactured object around me, and a manual of "how to build one by your own means".