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by simoncion 37 days ago
> ...especially when there are other labs with reasonably comparable performance that don’t require this?

This access restriction could be

1) A legitimate concern about capabilities.

2) A hype-generation scheme entered into by both the Federal Government and Anthropic.

3) Pettiness.

If we're in situation #1 or #3, then there are no other LLM providers that provide comparable services that are safe from this.

If we're in situation #2... well, I guess how safe you are from this is a factor of how desperately the company needs "wau, look how scary our software is!1!1" hype.