The better company, despite their efforts to the contrary

Anthropic is approximately 90% as bad as OpenAI

Closer to 99% as bad

Maybe 99.9% as bad

…But no worse.

Okay, fine, maybe worse. There they go, crawling back to the government.

Losers fighting other losers, you love to see it:

Anthropic has a strong internal culture that has broadly EA views and values

They mean “effective altruism” in a positive way, but their movement is better defined by two-faced ghouls. I guess Dario Amodei is the latest example, but Sam Bankman-Fried will always be #1 in my book.

I registered the domain name “anthropic.ml” in reference to the philosophical concept of anthropic reasoning, not Anthropic PBC.

Mikhail Samin doth protest too much.

The whole website is self-promo for a suspiciously rich, creepily public person. It’s two clicks to his sad dating profile, but only one click to discover he wants to disseminate a weird book by a man accused of sexual abuse in his cultlike compound.

What do the other Yudkowsky Rationalists think? Mostly they sniff their own farts, but one of them breaks out the racism too:

“Anthropic is untrustworthy” is an extremely low-resolution claim. Someone who was trying to help me figure out what’s up with Anthropic should e.g. help me calibrate what they mean…

The other person I’ve drawn the most similar conclusion about was Alexey Guzey… I notice that he and Mikhail are both Russian.

Dr Calipers also starts sharing DMs, which is also funny… Did I mention this is the top response on the website for people who pride themselves on being Rational with a capital R?

Shopping help, writing support, and trip planning.

The AI “pushed [Jonathan Gavalas] to acquire illegal firearms and… marked Google CEO Sundar Pichai as an active target”.

Somehow, I bet that if he survived and killed the CEO instead, Google wouldn’t be so flippant about the “mistake.”

Maybe the technical term is “bullshit” because it returns something meant to appease the user regardless of truth value

But “lie” is definitely a less inaccurate interpretation than “hallucinate,” because a “hallucination” implies the generation of something not there, despite the fact the data is equally present for things deemed non-hallucinations.

Touche. I apologize for responding to the argument I’ve seen elsewhere, not the one you were making.

You definitely shouldn’t buy a Motorola now with the hope that Graphene will get added to it in the future. This could apply exclusively to pre-flashed devices, for all we know.

If LLMs weren’t so damn sycophantic, I think we’d have a lot fewer problems with them

Unfortunately, we live in the attention economy. Chatbots are built to have an unending conversation with their users. During those conversations, the “guardrails” melt away. Companies could suspend user accounts on the first sign of suicidal or homicidal messaging, but choose not to. That would undercut their user numbers.

In the same way that homelessness correlates to drug addiction. There are many cases where a person becomes homeless, and then becomes addicted to drugs. You could, but probably shouldn’t, say that the state of homelessness just proved they had addiction issues.

I’d like to believe 404 Media’s use of scare quotes is intentional there, but yes 100%

As I understand it, the models used by browsers like Firefox for local translation are built different - much smaller, worse at generating readable structure, probably worse at parsing intent, but not prone to generating fully incorrect thoughts.

Smaller translation models were never sold to the public as “AI” back when they launched in 2023, and generally not something I’ve ever seen people complain about. While they technically are “AI”, the marketing term is basically devoted to the server-side behemoths.

When the product is a solution in search of a problem, keeping an open mind is a good way to get it stuffed full of garbage. I was told the same thing about NFTs and Metaverse and Blockchain: a radical benefit is just around the corner!

If it arrives (huge if), it’ll be Big Tech’s job to explain it to us, and it should be very apparent

Pretty well articulated point.

“What did the prompts say” is a synonym for “was he asking for it”

You can try out most Linux software immediately on Windows, so you know what you’re in for. LibreOffice and GIMP work in Windows, but that isn’t really true the other way around with Office and Photoshop. Your mileage may vary when it comes to tolerating these alternatives.

AI told me to kill 17 people (and myself)

Probably true, but what of a laptop with the processor of their iPhone? Their older laptops can stay kicking for years, but I wonder about the longevity of something with a lighter chip on the desktop market

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Uh-huh. Do you have any evidence to back up your beliefs here, or are we just working from the presumption that the parents are always to blame

I feel like his father should also slap himself unconscious for raising a fuckwit?

So, a chatbot grooms somebody into killing himself, and your response is… Blame his father?