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Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge
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It's possible to not like AI and what it's doing to society and the planet but also to be concerned about executive overreach and corrupt abuse of power.
What, have a nuanced view? Impossible, must be a troll.
Let's yell at him for being on the opposite side.
Sure, and once we have remedied the ten thousand OTHER problems caused by executive overreach and corruption in this admin we can get around to addressing the hard done to this poor little AI company.
I'm kinda thinking that by the time we get done with the other 11,000 (a thousand more happened between your comment and mine), Anthropic won't be much of a going concern anymore.
And it's also possible that that's the exact position already held by the person you're lecturing.
Sure. But this is one of those stories that hits right down the middle in places like Lemmy: it's a fascist government causing harm to a company with a long history of anti-human operation. It's a total sweating-guy-two-buttons meme situation: "Trump is a fascist" vs "And Nothing Of Value Was Lost." Seems like most people are picking a side. I think we shouldn't.
I think people pick sides far less often than the internet likes to presume that they do.
I tend to agree, but the internet amplifies polarization. Not a great thing for discourse.
Why not both?
That's...literally what I'm saying with this comment.
Fair enough. I interpreted it as "why not neither," but believe both (despite sounding hyperbolic) are actually, verifiably true.