After seeing headlines about the ufc fight on the White House lawn and seeing headlines about how Japanese World Cup fans clean up trash after the match I had an image of programmers doing lawn care at the White House...
doesn't seem to be a political meeting, but rather a technical one. Maybe they'll review the jailbreaks and demonstrate that can be replicated in any model out there?
Anecdotally, I think this is a much bigger cleanup than just talking to the administration.
I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic.
The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown.
Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time. I was expecting/hoping it'd be years away.
However given the events in the last few days it greatly increases my concern with building any product which can depend on an on an API which could go away for a number of my customers.
I've been experimenting with other open weight models hosted in favorable sovereign countries for a few months, but this accelerates something which was an experiment to now being a must-have.
I don't think it is going to be easy for any of the parties to repair this easily.
I think they’re going to have problems, because I’m sure they have a lot of foreign employees and it’s insane to think they now have to block them all from using their best models.
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[ 1.1 ms ] story [ 55.8 ms ] threaddoesn't seem to be a political meeting, but rather a technical one. Maybe they'll review the jailbreaks and demonstrate that can be replicated in any model out there?
US admin: "Thanks for the warning, we'll do the same then"
This was an epic (and deserved) own-goal.
(btw heres what most likely happened, they refused to fix a jailbreak: https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/2065853007619588171)
sounds super biased
UPD just look up "anthropic david sacks"
> epic
are you unironically happy about what is happening right now?
I think there's a wider damage done which there is no coming back from. And this is for the USA, not Anthropic.
The chance that sovereignty and rules such as this could be applied to AI was a concern that a lot of people had, but the risk was unknown.
Speaking for myself, I had guessed this would happen at some point of time. I was expecting/hoping it'd be years away.
However given the events in the last few days it greatly increases my concern with building any product which can depend on an on an API which could go away for a number of my customers.
I've been experimenting with other open weight models hosted in favorable sovereign countries for a few months, but this accelerates something which was an experiment to now being a must-have.
I don't think it is going to be easy for any of the parties to repair this easily.