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Consider this quote from the main article... "When you further combine this realization with the company’s pronouncements about AI’s ability to conduct all eco
by chasil 4mo ago
Consider this quote from the main article...
"When you further combine this realization with the company’s pronouncements about AI’s ability to conduct all economic activity, you realize that Anthropic’s leadership effectively wants to have power over everything and everyone."
This is fearful stuff on all sides, and none of the people involved might realistically be able to navigate the danger.
- khalic 4mo agoThat part just sounds like hyperbole at best, conspiracy at worst. By that logic, anybody who values safety has a god complex? It’s absurd…
- chasil 4mo agoI am just quoting the parent article. "What this degradation represented was both the capability and willingness of Anthropic to silently alter its models to achieve its policy preferences. In other words, Anthropic willfully validated some of its critics’ worst fears in terms of being a supply chain risk."
- khalic 4mo agoAgain, hyperbole and assumption of evil intent because… they take precautions? Nice prose doesn’t dispense you from forming a sound hypothesis
- penteract 4mo agoThe article makes a coherent argument: a) Anthropic believe that AI is an extinction level risk and that they are the only leading AI lab which takes safety seriously. In combination this puts them in the position of believing that they are the only ones who can save the world, which is reasonable to call a god complex. b) Anthropic are engaging in actions which aquire and consolidate power in the form of control over powerful AI. c) "The history of brilliant people convinced they know what humanity needs is a sordid one, precisely because they have convinced themselves that their intentions are good, justifying actions that very much are not." I'm describing claims from the article and would not word them so strongly myself. But this explicitly does not assume evil intent.
- baq 4mo agothe whole thing playing out as expected. if you think about it, the only question is the timeline. the next model with a gap to mythos as mythos is to opus will be controlled technology from the get-go. the one after it may be top secret.
- khalic 4mo agoOpen models will catch up eventually, TOTL models will get distilled into smaller, more efficient versions, it’s not something you can moat indefinitely
- baq 4mo agowho is going to continue to publish these open models and why would they keep doing it?
- pbhjpbhj 4mo agoOr OpenAI will pay Trump's regime's bribe and they'll suddenly realise that it does not need controlling and they're free to sell it?
- baq 4mo agothat's... an optimistic take I think