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> Unfortunate timing, as I am rooting for Anthropic as the underdog...

Give me a break... Anthropic has never been the underdog. Their CEO is one of the most hypocrite people in the field. In the name of "safety" and "ethics", they got away with not releasing even a single open-weight (or open-source) model, calling out OpenAI as the "bad guys", and constantly trying to sabotage pro-competition and pro-consumer AI laws in the US.

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They were also the first to work with the NSA, years before their change to support military uses, according to Dean Ball, former Whitehouse AI Policy advisor, in an interview with Nathan Labenz.

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A company can be considered as the underdog and still be run by assholes?

Well OpenAI and Sam Altman are "bad guys". At least that part is true. It is just that Anthropic is not better.

> Well OpenAI and Sam Altman are "bad guys".

Define "bad". Sama is a businessman and at least doesn't pretend to be a saint like Amodei does.

Oh as in being upfront with a for profit organization from the get go?

Isn’t this exactly what he was doing by calling it OpenAI and establishing it a nonprofit?

If you know sama you’d know damn well he’s not nice, but believe whatever you want of course

You don't need to be nice to be a good businessman

You are absolutely right! But China bad Dario good Anthropic the only firm caring about AI safety /s

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