alt Hacker NewsWhat's "entertaining" is more the speed at which it's happening.
It took Google probably 15 years to fully evil-ize. Anthropic ... two?
There is no "ethical capitalism" big tech company possible, esp once VC is involved, and especially with the current geopolitical circumstances.
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Apparently they got coerced by the current US admin. The department of war in particular, who want to use their products for military applications. Not much room for "safety" there. Then again, the entire US is currently speedrunning an evil build.
How did they evil-ize? The new Responsible Scaling Policy is still the most transparent out of all the labs. And there are the separate principles they’ve stipulated for the Pentagon, under which they’re facing threat of nationalization or being declared a supply chain risk
I don't think it's fair to call out Anthropic to have become evil-ized while they were quite literally forced by the gov into that decision.
Citation needed - see google and project maven. Of course that is all well in the past now - but for a brief moment google was capable of taking an ethical stance.
The acceleration of Anthropic's evil timeline must be from all those AI productivity gains we hear so much about.