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by LordDragonfang 2 days ago
> Can't use them for basic LLM research, cybersecurity, or beyond-surface-level discussions of biology and virology

Your priorities are not everyone else's priorities. The people concerned about AI extinction risk list those as three of their biggest priorities for AI to not do. Those are the people whose culture Anthropic descends from, and by their measure, those exclusions make this the least evil path.
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randbyte 2 days ago
More like Anthropic’s priorities are not everyone else’s priorities. They are in the consistent culture of being in absolute control and dictating what is good and bad, while taking any opportunity to trash and crush potential competitors (open source models happened to be mostly developed in China). All these in the name of safety and anti-authoritarian.

The day self hosted models catch up with Anthropic’s capabilities is when they will fully lose their shit. This day can’t come soon enough

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inciampati 2 days ago
Extinction risk. From population genetics... Does Anthropic even employ biologists? It's magical thinking about a field that is poorly understood by their community.
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selcuka 2 days ago
> Does Anthropic even employ biologists?

They do, and they are still actively hiring.

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5066977008 https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5239733008

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