On the subject of AI and the war in Iran, it feels pretty likely to me that the DoD will explode Anthropic with criminal/legal charges in August like they threatened to (unless Dario steps down), which will definitely be ugly

ChatGPT sex mode is also going to hell with Sora we hardly knew ye

Cheers, I’ll drink to that

their deal with Disney is also over, so hooray!

Damn, that is way, way bigger than I thought

The other guy is probably right that its a case of AI fanatics using chatbots to summarise what its about without actually engaging with it in any meaningful way (liking and commenting)

well thats fucking depressing to think about. You’re probably right tho

Thank you for your rigorous scientific studying stranger

Hooray…still thinking about how apparently the OpenAI and Anthropic PR teams were impressed with this doc, which is a pretty clear indicator of what it’s going to be like

the reviews on imdb have dropped a bit (from 8.5 down to 7.5) but that’ll probably change when the full thing drops

Also is it just me or does the trailer have a weirdly large views vs likes ratio? 5.6mil views with only 6.7K likes? is that the norm for documentaries?

I mean there is a lot of crazy bullshit in there so I don’t blame anyone for getting derailed

One of the solutions proposed — I am not kidding — is “writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks.” It’s really funny imagining a software engineer being like “woah … like automating the boring stuff, you might say?”

If I’m getting this right, they’re going to cut the cost of automating everything…by automating more things?

For lawsuits that actually are happening, OpenAI is getting sued by dictionaries

Microsoft MIGHT be suing OpenAI

Strong might, since nothing is set in stone yet. There have been talks where Microsoft has threatened to sue but that’s it so far

Reading the article again, that definitely feels like the angle the author was going for

The Founder of Anthropic Says He Wants to Protect Humanity From AI. Just Don’t Ask How. another long article about the AI craze and in particular Anthropic. A snippet that stood out to me:

"Reviewing my interview transcripts one night, I discover I’d left my recorder running when I excused myself to use the bathroom at Anthropic. On the tape, Kyle Fish, the AI researcher, and Danielle Ghiglieri, my tattooed guide, are laughing about some visitors to their headquarters the day before, what sounds like a documentary or TV crew.

“I sit right next to Trenton,” Fish says. “I went back and told him, ‘Dude, you really did something to those guys with your sunscreen stuff yesterday.’ He thought it was hilarious.”

They’re both cracking up.

Ghiglieri says Fish, too, had convincingly come off as a “different species of human,” adding: “They were very enamored with you.”

They’re inclined to cooperate with whatever project these people proposed, she says, and make everybody a star. I hadn’t heard Trenton’s sunscreen spiel yet. Only later, over lunch, would he tell me that he stopped protecting himself against skin cancer because AI was going to end the world in five years.

Crazy to me how people can so confidently predict AI doomsday, and then just keep working at an AI company

get ready to read the worst set of words possibly ever

I wonder if one of the reasons Pete Hegseth is going so hard after Anthropic is that he and other idiots in the Pentagon unironically believes shit like AI 2027 and so wants to soft nationalize the frontier companies so to control the coming AGI.

That is absolutely the reason, or at least part of it. See: Pete Hegseth Got His Happy Meal and how AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled themselves

Reading comments cause I was bored, and had the misfortune to stumble upon this horribly formatted piece of work allegedly written by Claude

I mean after the Epstein Files you have to be either deliberately ignorant or incredibly dense to not realise the rich get off easily

the Pentagon’s CTO has AI psychosis now. sighhhhhhhhh

The whole argument can just be countered with “if the Pentagon believes Claude is sentient and a danger to the military, then why make a deal with OpenAI to use ChatGPT, another LLM similar to Claude? Wouldn’t that also be a danger of becoming sentient? and why are Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump planning to force Anthropic to comply after 6 months if they believe Claude shouldn’t be in the military?? Why did you ask Anthropic to let you use Claude for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons if you believed it was sentient and a danger??”

It just reeks of bullshit. “uhm actually we made Anthropic a supply chain risk because Claude is actually very dangerous and not because we’re doing banana republic shit to anyone who disagrees with us. we are a very responsible and safe government. please dont impeach trump.”

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