Anthropic was founded by exiles of OpenAI's safety team, who quit en masse about 5 years ago. Then a few years later, the board tried to fire Altman. When will folks stop trusting OpenAI?
So better than "I'm thinking of solving x by doing y" is "What do you think about solving x by doing y" but better still is "how can x be solved?" and only mention "y" if it's spinning its wheels.
No, it isn't "good", it's grating as fuck. But OpenAI's obnoxious personality tuning is so much worse. Makes Anthropic look good.
That's a very naive opinion on what the war on drugs has evolved to.
Their safety-first image doesn’t fully hold up under scrutiny.
That's leaving aside your point, which is the overwhelming financial interest in leveraging manipulative/destructive/unethical psychological instruments to drive adoption.
Sam bears massive personal liability, in my opinion. But criminal? What crimes has he committed?
Sure. Relevant for the next guy. Not for Sam.
The elites after the French Revolution were not only mostly the same as before, they escaped with so much money and wealth that it’s actually debated if they increased their wealth share through the chaos [1].
If we had a revolution in America today–in an age of international assets, private jets and wire transfers--the richest would get richer. This is a self-defeating line to fantasize on if your goal is wealth redistribution.
Tens of millions of Americans not only voted for a sociopath who does whatever he wants from the billionaire class, they also wear cute little hats and drive cars with bumper stickers cheering on said sociopath.
Anthropic has weaponized the safety narrative into a marketing and political tool, and it is quite clear that they're pushing this narrative both for publicity from media that love the doomer narrative because it brings in ad-revenue, and for regulatory capture reasons.
Their intentions are obviously self-motivated, or they wouldn't be partnering with a company that openly prides itself on dystopian-level spying and surveillance of the world.
OpenAI aren't the good guys either, but I wish people would stop pretending like Anthropic are.