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Yeah but a lot of the guardrails are pretty obviously to prevent competition not for safety.
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Hmm. Maybe they are concerned about state actors trying to train equivalent models without the safeguards?
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If a for profit company does a thing that could be motivated by profit or altruism, which of those 2 motivations do you think is most likely?
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When they've repeatedly made decisions against their for profit nature, it changes the calculus a bit.
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They haven't though. There's a long term plan here, and the goal is power and wealth. Short term moves that appear irrational turn out to be rational (from a greed perspective) when you factor in other considerations, like: Use their own AGI to create every software product on Earth and swallow the worlds economy. And we're kindly feeding their systems our codebases, IP and business decision-making so they can do exactly that.

Not a single thing Anthropic has done has been altruistic, and it never will be. It's all smoke and mirrors for the end goal.

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If this was true they'd never have picked a fight with the DOW and they'd release Fable without safeguards.
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How do you not recognize that the safeguards provide obvious benefits to the company?
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Why invent new motives for Anthropic when their real motives are plain and obvious and have been confirmed time and time again by their behavior over the last few years? Their concern is their own power and wealth. Every other conceivable motive is secondary to that.
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More like concerned about distillation.
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The "guardrails" are just Anthropic's attempt at building a moat. Guarantee they'll be seeking regulation around AI as well to ensure a form of regulatory capture. Guardrails, in this context, are useless. Anyone who's sufficiently motivated will either get around them, or will just run their own model on their home hardware. There's already tools that one can use to remove the guardrails present in open weight models.
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Guardrails against what? Rehashing public wikipedia information?

Execution matters, and they did a trurly horrible job that crippled their product to the point of being useless and a joke. Huge mistakes were made and im sure they regret it already, heads will roll.

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What would happen, exactly?

My imagination says “nothing much”.

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