If you use a MacBook for work, Apple should get a 30% cut of your salary!
Anything else is stealing from Apple’s generous charity of selling you a laptop for $3000.
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Anything else is stealing from Apple’s generous charity of selling you a laptop for $3000.
It is a travesty that free-loading scumbag users can buy stuff on the web without Apple getting a cut.
Yes. That's the whole point. They are doing research. Anthropic literally starts their description of the blackmail test observations saying that it is a test scenario using a fictional company.
> In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company
> Why would a business pay for Slack when IRC exists?
> Why would a business pay for Dropbox when FTP exists?
There's OpenAI employees spreading this rumor on Twitter with 0 evidence. Their entire evidence is "I keep hearing Anthropic wants to control AI". Their evidence is literal rumors.