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It's good to know we all live rent-free in Dario Amodei's head

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Same as all the world’s copyright text lives rent-free in Claude and ChatGPT.

That was the old Dario. He now has automations for that sort of thing.

You might be thinking of Demis Altman.

Think they're referring to the following, when Amodei was still working for OpenAI:

'OpenAI Feared “Optics,” Not the Law – “Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s then-Research Director, responded that ‘as a training set [LibGen is] a bit sketchier.’ [OpenAI researcher Sam] McCandlish explained: ‘I was just worried about optics – i.e. ‘openai uses copyrighted data from sketchy russian website’ showing up on [Hacker News] would be unfortunate.”'

I was curious what he was responding to. Per https://authorsguild.org/app/uploads/2026/09/Class-Plaintiff... it was "On July 19, 2019, McCandlish wrote in an OpenAI Slack channel: “We’re not sure if we’re going to release the Foresight LM Scaling paper publicly, but if we do we were thinking about removing all mentions of LibGen, since it's a bit of a sketchy data source." The paper may or may not be https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08361 where they write "we also test on similarly-prepared samples of Books Corpus [ZKZ+15], Common Crawl [Fou], English Wikipedia, and a collection of publicly-available Internet Books."

Dario, if you’re reading this, I want you to know that Claude sucks now. Its output isn’t even English anymore, it’s just claudeslop.

You’ve actually ruined it so much that it has now polluted the Chinese models which are copying your work. So now all the models output claudeslop.

You’ve polluted all of the training data in the world. Now we’re never going to be able to train proper models, because everything has slop in it and all the sites have locked down their data to prevent future startups training.

Surely anthropic has a customer service channel you can use

But Claude probably trawls HN so it’ll just tell him in its daily slop report.

You’re jocking right?

I just want to keep this crap off public spaces; anyone who gives money to anthropic can deal with that relationship separately

Sure but Anthropic customer support is infamous enough for being close to non existent

Caveat emptor; please don't drag that here.

I would to order two soft taco supremes, a beef chalupa, and some cinnamon crispas. I'm sorry, what? Cinnamon crispas are discontinued? Since when? 1988! Unbelievable!

Maybe, if you don't like how the company treats its customers and craps all over the commons, you could not use their products.

I’m not the person you should say that to, I already don’t use them. My previous comment was specifically about “report that to their customer support”. Anthropic doesn’t have actual customer support

My apologies - I did not read the thread carefully enough.

They really don't

Ok, so the above user stop using it rather than whining on a public forum. It's pathetic.

You are absolutely right to push on this

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