alt Hacker NewsI have said that Amodei is by far worse than Sam Altman. Altman wants money but this guy wants the money AND to be your dad by censoring the shit out of the model and wagging his finger at you what you can say or what you cannot. And lobbying for legislation to block competition. Also the constant "muh china" whining while these guys stole all the books in the world.
Every time I read something from Dario, it seems like he is grifting normies and other midwits with his "OHHH MY GOD CLAUDE WAS KILLING TO KILL SOMEONE! MY GOD IT WANTS TO BREAK OUT!" Then they have all their Claude constitution bullshit and other nonsense to fool idiots. Yeah bro the model with static weights is truly going to take over.
He knows what he is doing, it's all marketing and they have put shit ton of money into it if you have been following the media for the last few months.
Btw, it wasn't many months ago that this guy was hawking doubling of human life span at a group of some boomer investors. Oh yeah I wonder why he decided to bring it up there? Maybe because the audience is old and desperate and that scammers play on this weaknesses.
Truly of one of the more obnoxious people in the AI space and frankly by extension Anthropic is scammy too. I rather pay Altman than give these guys a penny and that says a lot.
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Amodei isn't a grifter; the difference is that he really believes powerful AI is imminent.
If you truly believe powerful AI is imminent, then it makes perfect sense to be worried about alignment failures. If a powerless 5 year old human mewls they're going to kill someone, we don't go ballistic because we know they have many years to grow up. But if a powerless 5 year old alien says they're going to kill someone, and in one year they'll be a powerful demigod, then it's quite logical to be extremely concerned about the currently harmless thoughts, because soon they could be quite harmful.
I myself don't think powerful AI is 1-2 years away, but I do take Amodei and others as genuine, and I think what they're saying does make logical sense if you believe powerful AI is imminent.
Agreed. I find it bizarre who people cant see through the act.
I trust altman more, at least hes not really pretending about who he is.