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Per Anthropic’s RCA linked in Ops post for September 2025 issues: “… To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server l

Per Anthropic’s RCA linked in Ops post for September 2025 issues: “… To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load. …” So according to Anthropic they are not tweaking quality setting due to demand.

rootnod3 8mo ago
And according to Google, they always delete data if requested. And according to Meta, they always give you ALL the data they have on you when requested.
- entropicdrifter 8mo ago
  >And according to Google, they always delete data if requested. However, the request form is on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard'.
- groundzeros2015 8mo ago
  What would you like?
  - AlexandrB 8mo ago
    An SLA-style contractually binding agreement.
    - edmundsauto 8mo ago
      I bet this is available in large enterprise agreements. How much are you willing to pay for it?
      - Onavo 8mo ago
        Priced in.
cmrdporcupine 8mo ago
I guess I just don't know how to square that with my actual experiences then. I've seen sporadic drops in reasoning skills that made me feel like it was January 2025, not 2026 ... inconsistent.
- root_axis 8mo ago
  I wouldn't doubt that these companies would deliberately degrade performance to manage load, but it's also true that humans are notoriously terrible at identifying random distributions, even with something as simple as a coin flip. It's very possible that what you view as degradation is just "bad RNG".
  - cmrdporcupine 8mo ago
    yep stochastic fantastic these things are by definition hard to reason about
- quadrature 8mo ago
  LLMs sample the next token from a conditional probability distribution, the hope is that dumb sequences are less probable but they will just happen naturally.
  - tempaccount420 8mo ago
    It's more like the choice between "the" and "a" than "yes" and "no".
  - mattmanser 8mo ago
    Funny how those probabilities consistently at 2pm UK time when all the Americans come online...
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chrisjj 8mo ago
That's about model quality. Nothing about output quality.
stefan_ 8mo ago
Thats what is called an "overly specific denial". It sounds more palatable if you say "we deployed a newly quantized model of Opus and here are cherry picked benchmarks to show its the same", and even that they don't announce publicly.

rootnod3 8mo ago

And according to Google, they always delete data if requested. And according to Meta, they always give you ALL the data they have on you when requested.

entropicdrifter 8mo ago
>And according to Google, they always delete data if requested. However, the request form is on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard'.
groundzeros2015 8mo ago
What would you like?
- AlexandrB 8mo ago
  An SLA-style contractually binding agreement.
  - edmundsauto 8mo ago
    I bet this is available in large enterprise agreements. How much are you willing to pay for it?
    - Onavo 8mo ago
      Priced in.

cmrdporcupine 8mo ago

I guess I just don't know how to square that with my actual experiences then. I've seen sporadic drops in reasoning skills that made me feel like it was January 2025, not 2026 ... inconsistent.

root_axis 8mo ago
I wouldn't doubt that these companies would deliberately degrade performance to manage load, but it's also true that humans are notoriously terrible at identifying random distributions, even with something as simple as a coin flip. It's very possible that what you view as degradation is just "bad RNG".
- cmrdporcupine 8mo ago
  yep stochastic fantastic these things are by definition hard to reason about
quadrature 8mo ago
LLMs sample the next token from a conditional probability distribution, the hope is that dumb sequences are less probable but they will just happen naturally.
- tempaccount420 8mo ago
  It's more like the choice between "the" and "a" than "yes" and "no".
- mattmanser 8mo ago
  Funny how those probabilities consistently at 2pm UK time when all the Americans come online...

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chrisjj 8mo ago

That's about model quality. Nothing about output quality.

stefan_ 8mo ago

Thats what is called an "overly specific denial". It sounds more palatable if you say "we deployed a newly quantized model of Opus and here are cherry picked benchmarks to show its the same", and even that they don't announce publicly.