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Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)

submitted 3 months ago by Aatube@kbin.melroy.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[L]ately, Anthropic has been in the headlines for less noble reasons: It’s pushing back on a landmark California bill to regulate AI. It’s taking money from Google and Amazon in a way that’s drawing antitrust scrutiny. And it’s being accused of aggressively scraping data from websites without permission, harming their performance.

It was supposed to be different from OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. In fact, all of Anthropic’s founders once worked at OpenAI but quit in part because of differences over safety culture there, and moved to spin up their own company that would build AI more responsibly.

An AI company may want to build safe systems, but in such a hype-filled industry, it faces enormous pressure to be first out of the gate. The company needs to pull in investors to supply the gargantuan sums of money needed to build top AI models, and to do that, it needs to satisfy them by showing a path to huge profits. Oh, and the stakes — should the tech go wrong — are much higher than with almost any previous technology.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

The idea that AI is even on the radar of threats to humanity compared to climate change or nuclear war is fucking ridiculous.

[–] wewbull@feddit.uk 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's fueling climate change with the power it's consuming.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 months ago

And with it's ability to just spit out garbage misinformation with unmatched speed.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I get what you mean, but the way it’s being used is actively and visibly corrosive to the societies we live in, and has been used to intentionally undermine factual reporting and societal cohesion in a lot of subtle ways, which can and has negatively impacted our ability to deal with literally any other topic. So yeah, though it’s not as direct a cause as the things you mentioned, I would absolutely still rank it up there.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Almost so misleading it's intentional.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Tech firm that promised a better world turns bad guy. Where have I seen this before?

[–] filister@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Money ruins even the best intentions.

[–] snooggums@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago

Nah, they clearly didn't have the best intentions and just moved away from criticism so they could pretend to be noble.

[–] MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 months ago

They became what they swore to destroy.