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> He recalls meeting President Trump at an AI and energy summit in Pennsylvania, "where he and I had a good conversation about US leadership in AI,"
> "Unfortunately, I think 'No bad person should ever benefit from our success' is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on... This is a real downside and I'm not thrilled about it."
> "Throughout my time here, I've repeatedly seen how hard it is to truly let our values govern our actions. I've seen this within myself, within the organization, where we constantly face pressures to set aside what matters most, and throughout broader society too." (from a researcher at Anthropic)
I don't think that any of this is particularly damning. Even if you don't like the president, I don't think it's bad to say that you had a good conversation with them. I believe the CEO of NVIDIA has said similar. The Saudis invest in many public US companies, does that make those companies less trust worthy? What about taking private capital from institutions such as State Street and Blackrock? The last quote seems like more of a reflection than an allegation. It read to me as a desire to do better.
I'm all for not trusting companies, but Anthropic seems to be one of the few that's trying to do good. I think we've seen a lot worse from many of their competitors.
Now, to break your confidentiality, Signal would have to have a relatively complex system setup for trying to match up messages and deanonymize people. You could imagine many scenarios where a bad actor (agency) attempts to trick Signal into logging metadata. This now requires a lot more information, and if nothing else would give you a level of deniability.
Funny that they managed to call out all of their competitors without mentioning any of Claude's bad behavior
It's notable that this was an intern project.
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Email: skylerwiernik@gmail.com
- Shipped first iPhone app to 800+ DAU at age of 14- Licensed LLM search engine for pitchdecks to large M&A firm
- Built open source robotics software and pitched to FIRST Robotics CEO, which they are evaluating.
- Interned at Apple
- Graduating in May, CS with focus in Robotics.
- Interested in dev tools and robotics. Open to other areas.
- Currently in Boston, willing to relocate to NYC or SF area.
- Meta releases serious enterprise self-hosting Llama platform
- Apple Intelligence remains useless
- Trump begins to show serious signs of mental decline. Not tired like Biden, but overly paranoid and delusional like Putin.
- GPT-5 is almost the same as GPT-4, but it doesn't have a recognizable tone
OpenAI's tokenizer makes "chess" "ch" and "ess". We could just make it into "c" "h" "e" "s" "s"