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Anthropic is untrustworthy (anthropic.ml)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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This post provides arguments, asks questions, and documents some examples of Anthropic's leadership being misleading and deceptive, holding contradictory positions that consistently shift in OpenAI's direction, lobbying to kill and water down regulation so helpful that employees of all major AI companies speak out to support it, and violating the fundamental promise the company was founded on. It also shares a few previously unreported details on Anthropic leadership's promises and efforts.

Anthropic has a strong internal culture that has broadly EA views and values, and the company has strong pressures to appear to follow these views and values as it wants to retain talent and the loyalty of staff, but it's very unclear what they would do when it matters most. Their staff should demand answers.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

and yet still preferable to OpenAI, Google, and xAI.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They keep trying to, but Hegseth formally designated them a supply chain risk just a few hours ago, right after using Claude in Iran.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The better company, despite their efforts to the contrary

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 2 points 1 day ago

You got a genuine laugh outta me. Well put.

[–] realitista@lemmus.org 1 points 1 day ago

Still better than OpenAI, Google, and Facebook