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"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow
- avaer 8mo ago> There are no virtuous participants in the artificial intelligence race A bit of an insulting way to start the article. Plenty of researchers and smaller companies would disagree, but they won't get articles written about them because they're not embroiled in DOW killbot drama. We might not be in this situation if all of this money was given to them instead.
- Terr_ 8mo agoIn a similar vein, a shout out to all my software homies out there who are just trying to fix data entry input field bugs instead of constructing the Torment Nexus.
- JohnTHaller 8mo agoThe AI race refers to the big companies that through shady tactics are currently in the 'lead'. None of them are virtuous.
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- ssl-3 8mo ago"DOW" here is an acronym for Department of War, and really should be fully capitalized in the title.
- marginalia_nu 8mo agoYeah title is currently likely to be interpreted as Dow Jones.
- cls59 8mo agoOr Dow Chemical.
- Svip 8mo agoIt's also still the Department of Defense; only Congress can change its name, and they haven't.
- ssl-3 8mo agoThe article's title says "Department of War". (I didn't write the title.)
- dudefeliciano 8mo agoit's a subtle kowtow to the administration, to call the DoD the DoW
- blazespin 8mo agoI'd say it's more a kowtow to his voters and democracy. Whatever you think of him, he was democratically elected. Do remember to show up this November, though, and remind all your friends..
- dudefeliciano 8mo ago> kowtow to his voters and democracy. The president can not unilaterally rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War without approval from congress. Just declaring it so is not democracy. Those that call it the Department of War are enablers.
- Retric 8mo agoDoW or more accurately DoD like WoW is less ambiguous than fully capitalized.
- ssl-3 8mo agoI considered the small "o". But the precedent for US government TLAs seems to be to capitalize the whole thing: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-ovt/us-government-acronym-list https://www.justice.gov/nsd-ovt/us-government-acronym-list
- Retric 8mo agoCapitalizing everything is the new direction, but I doubt it’s going to stick around. There’s a long legacy of DoD vs DOW, for a current military example that wasn’t updated: https://dodtap.mil/dodtap/app/about/DoDTAP https://dodtap.mil/dodtap/app/about/DoDTAP Here the DoD pattern makes it clear what part of the larger acronym is representing.
- thatcat 8mo agowouldn't it be DoW, like DoD?
- system2 8mo agoOnly liberals. HN partially, and Reddit in general. Average Joe doesn't hear these things. Here is my proof. I go to a dog park every morning and talk to people, and you might know how close you get at the parks with casuals. I asked around about this subject this morning. Absolutely no one knew about it. And these people are working in relatively techy workplaces. Most people I spoke to this morning said something similar to "yeah, cool, USA should get the most of the tech they can to fight the bad guys". This is an echo chamber. Nothing more.
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- system2 8mo agoI doubt others in other countries would even know who owns ChatGPT. People just use it as an app, and they do not care what the U.S. government does with American companies.
- ryandvm 8mo agoFind a smarter dog park
- system2 8mo agoI tried, this is the most upper-class I could find in LA. Most of the people make over 6 figures and own their own houses. Try to go out and talk to people yourself and let us know your findings. What we are talking about on HN or Reddit does not reflect reality. This is an echo chamber.
- Simulacra 8mo agoThis article makes no sense. ChatGPT is a search engine and knowledge base with an anthropomorphic front end. It's Google with human characteristics. I think, IMHO, people take AI way too seriously and see in it a boogeyman to conquer.
- andy_ppp 8mo agoI know this is very picky but I find the font choices of Claude quite distracting and difficult to read. I might try Gemini but the Trump admin would probably force Google to sell YouTube to Larry Ellison so they will capitulate. Are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?
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- drewolbrich 8mo agoThere's a Claude settings option to use the system font instead.
- delecti 8mo agoIt seems like Claude's settings let you pick the system font. Is there a reason to not change your system font to something you don't find distracting? It seems like it would have knock-on benefits by making every application less distracting.
- andy_ppp 8mo agoNice I didn’t know this I’ll give it go then…
- Imustaskforhelp 8mo ago> are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure? Yup, Check out Openrouter providers for your particular chinese frontier model/ open weights model in general and you could find the location of all providers who host that model and where they are hosted (US/EU countries etc.) as well. You can also change Claude font as others are mentioning.
- andy_ppp 8mo agoSo about the font thing... now the content of chats uses the default font but the UI all uses anthropicSans which is horrible and also causes a clash as two fonts that are extremely similar fall into a weird uncanny valley for me. I wish the setting to choose a font was across the whole UI.
- jedberg 8mo agoIt’s DoD. It’s still not officially changed. But if you insist on using the nickname it should be DoW.
- siva7 8mo agoSays windowscentral.com... People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic nor do they care about this dispute. What normal poeple might have heard is probably more something along the lines of Anthropic and supply-chain-risk and unpatriotic...
- 3rodents 8mo agoThe top post on Reddit is about it, it has escaped the nerdsphere.
- siva7 8mo agoReddit is an algorithm-based aggregator so of course it will show some hn dude also the same nerd stuff
- delecti 8mo agoReddit's "hot" algorithm (the default view in most contexts) is not persomalized. It's basically just the rate of upvotes.
- siva7 8mo agoSure? I visited Reddit just now and i don't even know how to get to this non-personalized algo. At least they make a really good job to hide this view as good as possible so i doubt it's the default view for most logged users.
- delecti 8mo agoThat's my point, you don't generally have to "do" anything to get to "hot". If you open a /r/all or an individual subreddit, the default view is the "hot" algorithm.
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- journal 8mo agoI refuse to use anything but OpenAI API.
- hypercube33 8mo agoI can't tell if this is satire but if not, you're only holding yourself back. It's far from the leading model family for a while now for almost any workload.
- firefoxd 8mo agoOne thing to take into account, this will now be a large source of revenue for them. You thought you would get away with the free tier, but now as a tax payer, we are all funding it.
- cpeterso 8mo agoAnd they can get “too build to fail” bailouts from the US government after they are dependent on ChatGPT.
- hbarka 8mo agoDario Amodei direct interview today on CBS News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU
- nialv7 8mo agoi don't have an openai subscription, but i still want to participate
- mickle00 8mo agoGreat to see this going mainstream
- Jordan-117 8mo ago*DoD Headline makes it sound like Dow Chemical/Jones.
- ChrisArchitect 8mo ago[dupe] Discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478