As usual, the corporations benefiting from supporting war and subverting the rights of everyday citizens is rewarded by massive subsidies by the capitalist state.
Anthropic currently is winning the public sentiment war, but OpenAI is being established as another to-big-to-fail capitalist regime institution.
I'd just been using the free version of OpenAI for my easy tasks, so as not to waste my Claude credits on them. About time I deleted it and gave it the poor review it deserves.
Obvious political reasons and implications aside, a clear quality gap opened up late last year when Opus 4.5 was released vs. GPT-5. Opus was obviously and demonstrably superior to any GPT-5 tier. The release of GPT-5.2 didn't improve matters, and then Opus 4.6 widened the gap further. Right now talking to GPT-5.2 Pro is 10x slower than chatting with Opus 4.6 and the output returned is, nevertheless, generally lower quality and more "sloppy."
What I'm getting at is that this could be, in part, because Claude is genuinely better at this point in time.
rsync.net is (minimally) an openai customer. I've used it mostly as a curiosity but others here have used it in more professional manner.
When we created the account we shared essentially zero personal information and used a purpose-specific email, etc. No ID scans, no passports, no robust ID verification. It is a company account, after all, so it would make no sense to tie it to a particular person ...
All of this to ask:
In 2026, if I choose to boycott openAI on behalf of my firm, and perhaps sign up for Claude with the intention of using either the web interface or a terminal CLI ... what will be demanded in terms of identity and personal information ?
IME, zero. None of them require things like this for the web interface or terminal CLI.
And if you want to use the API? OpenAI requires full identity documentation upload and potentially selfies sending to Persona (the exact thing Discord was just chastised over) if you want to use a remotely recent model. Anthropic doesn't ask for any of this - and neither does any other model provider.
I read the terms regarding mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Both OpenAI and Anthropic had similar holdbacks AFAICT. [0]
> The Pentagon has agreed to OpenAI's rules for deploying its technology safely in classified settings, though no contract has been signed, a source familiar with the talks tells Axios.
> Why it matters: The Pentagon has blasted OpenAI rival Anthropic for days, contending its red lines for AI use in the military -- mass surveillance and autonomous weapons -- are philosophical and "woke."
> Now, the department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, appears to have accepted OpenAI's similar conditions.
One big difference
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift [1]
I guess that makes it "less woke". This is reprehensible political bullshit.
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[ 1.0 ms ] story [ 51.7 ms ] threadAnthropic currently is winning the public sentiment war, but OpenAI is being established as another to-big-to-fail capitalist regime institution.
What I'm getting at is that this could be, in part, because Claude is genuinely better at this point in time.
This a nothing burger
Meanwhile I have a working desktop app but this magic email link nonsense doesnt seem to work on my phone.
Sam thought he was special. He is not.
I won't go back.
When we created the account we shared essentially zero personal information and used a purpose-specific email, etc. No ID scans, no passports, no robust ID verification. It is a company account, after all, so it would make no sense to tie it to a particular person ...
All of this to ask:
In 2026, if I choose to boycott openAI on behalf of my firm, and perhaps sign up for Claude with the intention of using either the web interface or a terminal CLI ... what will be demanded in terms of identity and personal information ?
And if you want to use the API? OpenAI requires full identity documentation upload and potentially selfies sending to Persona (the exact thing Discord was just chastised over) if you want to use a remotely recent model. Anthropic doesn't ask for any of this - and neither does any other model provider.
american eagle sales are one thing, Sydney's image and PR are another...
> The Pentagon has agreed to OpenAI's rules for deploying its technology safely in classified settings, though no contract has been signed, a source familiar with the talks tells Axios.
> Why it matters: The Pentagon has blasted OpenAI rival Anthropic for days, contending its red lines for AI use in the military -- mass surveillance and autonomous weapons -- are philosophical and "woke."
> Now, the department, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment, appears to have accepted OpenAI's similar conditions.
One big difference
OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25 million gift [1]
I guess that makes it "less woke". This is reprehensible political bullshit.
[0] https://archive.ph/9NcMf#selection-579.0-611.135
[1] https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/brockman-openai-top-trum...