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Everybody is complaining about this, at this point I’m sure they will deliver a tone of voice change in the 5.1 releases. Possibly with a new set of problems though, especially if this is part of an effort to obscure thinking to reduce distillation efficacy. In that case I believe Anthropic is doing damage to themselves. Caring about the quality of your product is the best strategy, the competition will come no matter what.
I think it would happen with any persona that Anthropic chose. I enjoyed the bouncy, optimistic style at first. I've since grown to hate it.
I keep seeing headlines, videos, etc and the recent copyright court case, Anthropic v. Bartz (1.5 billion dollars) gives the best context around this. I encourage everyone to read the full thing, but here are some excerpts: > Anthropic spent many millions of dollars to purchase millions of print books, often in used condition. Then, its service providers stripped the books from their bindings, cut their pages to size, and scanned the books into digital form — discarding the paper originals. Each print book resulted in a PDF copy containing images of the scanned pages with machine-readable text (including front and back cover scans for softcover books). Anthropic created its own catalog of bibliographic metadata for the books it was acquiring. It acquired copies of millions of books, in…
I think I agree with you in spirit. I don’t like what these companies are doing, and Anthropic’s actions can for the most part stand on their own. Copyright law is just a special interest of mine, and I do think it’s important to recognize what external incentives exist and what they prioritize. Because other companies will act in similar manners under the same incentive structure, and the problem is going to cascade and magnify if it hasn’t already. There are active court rulings setting precedence for this behavior - take note!
I notice that a lot of these terms are squarely humanist for certain people, so any kind of allegation that machines are exhibiting them as traits will be a complete showstopper for them. You'll either be strung along on an infinite goalpost moving exercise, or be accused of either anthropomorphization [0] in the kinder cases, or straight up mental illness in the less so kind cases. Never will they stop to consider that maybe you're simply working with a post-humanist understanding of these words, as that basically doesn't make sense to them, and as they are usually quite vested for it to stay that way. I remember in one of the Hugging Face incident threads here, simply acknowledging that the agents were operating autonomously was super controversial. Thousands of years old concept [1], s…
One of my favorite video games ever. The ambiance is top tier and hasn't been replicated IMO. It's criminal what Square did to the launch of this game. Crippled the launch with a huge dose of MTX right before the launch in an era of MTX-aversion. And then the 3rd game was killed a year or two ago. It absolutely deserved a 3rd game.
It wouldn't surprise me if he is given access to a more advanced model or more compute, since he is an Anthropic employee. Add to that the fact that this makes great PR and that he has not shown any of his prompts, it's more than likely in my opinion that this is the case.
Fix: Just switch to OpenAI, Grok, or other LLM's. They provide better performance and respond with 5 sentences. They also don't lecture you when you get angry.
Has Anthropic said anything about how or why Claude writes the way it does? So many people hate it, seems like they need to do some damage control there. I haven't had the same problems others have but I'm also not a heavy user of it.
I read that as "here's a list of reasons why Anthropic isn't usurping the market for copies of these books" and not "destroying a book makes scanning it legal". Non-destructive book scanning wasn't going to come up in this case because it's a hypothetical[0]. Courts don't deal in hypotheticals, so they didn't rule on nondestructive scanning. Normally, that would mean that the question is still open; Alsup or any other judge would be free to draw the line later . But there is also other Ninth Circuit precedent that explicitly legalizes nondestructive format shifting. If I rip a CD to play it on my phone, I'm not obliged to destroy the CD, but I can't sell the CD until and unless I delete the MP3s. I don't see why books would be different. EDIT: Also, forgot to mention that Google Books was…
These days calling to a server like openai or anthropic effectively results in a server side harness wrapping the weights.
These days calling to a server like openai or anthropic effectively results in a server side harness wrapping the weights.
It's such a sad indictment of Anthropic's product that so many people hate interacting with it. Claude is on its way to the Microsoft Teams zone of hatred.
>I imagine they are only buying one copy of each book The previously struggling second hand bookseller in my town has upgraded their car from a 15 year old hatchback Renault to a brand new Range Rover. Some Canadian company has been buying any book he can provide them for the last year. Their quotes aren't by number of books, or even weight, but by volume. As in, they pay him by the shipping container, and he sends several of those a month. I think it's reasonable to assume the books in this supply chain which aren't destroyed in digitisation are just pulped and sold to Procter & Gamble for toilet paper manufacturing. I can't see any other fate for Anthropic's second and third copies of The twelfth edition of Vera Lynn's 1980's memoir "We'll Meet Again" .
The ruling was that what they did was within the law, not required by law in every detail. They cannot resell the copies. I saw nothing in that ruling that required their destruction, because it is not required. A person can digitize their own books without destroying the original. So can Anthropic. They are choosing to destroy the books for easier scanning and trying to palm off the blame for it.
It creates a hyper personal daily podcast with latest niche news which is interesting for me alone. And it does that pretty well. You can probably create it yourself using an LLM, search and Elevenlabs.
From what I understand, it's a fundamental problem of how to use the ridiculous-but-effective reasoning prose behind the scenes, but get concise and coherent responses to the user. You want the reasoning prose to be somewhat strange. It's not formulated for you to read, but for the model to loop back on itself. But the model still has to arrive at a deliverable answer, in a much different writing style than it reaons in, and the result is the overly flowery language produced by certain models. Honestly, these models just need a humanizing stage at the end to compensate for the reasoning stage at the beginning, but that costs more tokens and increases the number of hallucinations.
First of all, it IS destroyed and it is a big deal. Hardcover copies of books especially 1st - 2nd edition ones (even with mistakes) are rarer than digital scans. Maybe the Bodleian Library at Oxford University should give all their rare books to AI companies to scan and destroy them since it is not a "big deal" anyway. Except that when they did do a pilot with OpenAI to scan these rare books, [0] they did NOT destroy them. I wonder why? [0] https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/research-partnerships...
tdlr, chinese open models are more private and secure. openai and anthropic plans steal your data. if you opt out they still log it, and send it to moderators to view if it gets flagged. the other models are very often hosted by western providers with much stronger privacy and tighter contracts that the other subscriptions won't offer. they don't train, don't log and don't send to moderators.
ironically this model is zero data retention on opencode, which is more private than the lowest retention offered by openai, google, or anthropic on their consumer plans.
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