alt Hacker NewsWho remembers the Google of Eric Schmidt and "Don't Be Evil"?
The truth is that it doesn't matter what companies say, what they claim, what they do, and what their CEO says/claims/does.
It's just a matter of time until the shareholders will get the right CEO to maximize shareholder value.
People in the comments who want a statement or a "reorientation" or a commitment from Anthropic leadership are missing the principles of how capitalism functions. Shareholder value cannot be compromised. In every battle between morality and profit, values and profit, public good and profit, ultimately all things will mutate into a state that enables profit to prevail. Always.
There are no exceptions to this.
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> There are no exceptions to this.
Not in capitalism, indeed.
It's hard for people to understand that often it's a choice between "do the right thing" or "pay the price" (literally).
Usually neither shareholders nor users are willing to pay the price.