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I've gotten flagged for asking questions about tokens and tensors. That makes me believe it's not about safety, it's about protecting their turf. I cancelled
by xscott 2mo ago
I've gotten flagged for asking questions about tokens and tensors. That makes me believe it's not about safety, it's about protecting their turf. I cancelled my subscription - same fear about getting flagged too much leading to a ban.
- KronisLV 2mo agoOpenAI and Kimi are both pretty okay alternatives! I guess GLM 5.3 on Max reasoning as well but for more limited domains.
- vineyardmike 2mo agoThey said they also block usage of Claude models to build ML models. Which is definitely protecting their turf, but also probably a little bit hiding their “RSI” abilities for competitive reasons. My theory is that a lot of “safety blocking” is actually WIP training of new business directions. Anthropic has started hiring biologists and has opened a preview of a “Claude code for bioinformatics”. I’m guessing they’re tweaking their bioinformatics market play, and block “bio safety” requests so competitors can’t learn about their training.
- xscott 2mo agoWhat's the distinction between "protecting their turf" and "competitive reasons"? I see them as the same, but I could be missing something. That's an interesting thought on the current "safety blocking" being a trial run for the topics that scare people (bio). You're more charitable about their motives than I am, but you might be right.
- vineyardmike 2mo agoMy differentiation for this comment, was “preventing someone from using your product to build a competitor” vs “letting a competitor see your strengths/weakness to benchmark against you”. Competition is competition and it’s two sides of the same coin.
- alchemist1e9 2mo agoI agree. It’s flagged me on discussing fast GEMM implementations for large regressions, a discussion on theoretical physics math, a discussion on designing a type of RAG system. I’m super baffled as to what the safety instructions actually are other than “advanced anything” and even then their definition of advanced is a joke, I’m an idiot and my questions are almost laughable.
- xscott 2mo agoSame here - my questions were sophomore level. I think it's notable that when I edited my question to say it was about Gemma 4, it answered without blocking. A cynic like myself would interpret that as evidence they don't care about sharing information if it involves their competitors.
- fragmede 2mo agoGetting downgraded for asking "What is digestion" to Fable is where it's just ridiculous and clearly a limitation of the technologies involved.