Ben Thompson
speaker
41,192 appearances
118 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's an aspect here to my feedback to anthropic is your what is fine, it's the how that needs work.
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Uh you need to figure out like how to communicate how to communicate these things
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the Department of War debate, which ultimately was is like a philosophical question of who's in charge.
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And the fundamental problem with anthropics how is actually not just the how, it's the substance.
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In that debate, their red line was we get to decide how this is used.
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So is you asked earlier for evidence of them saying they should be.
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Yeah.
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There's your example.
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Yeah.
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Like they've already demonstrated it.
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And by the way, you know, we talked about this last week.
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They've also demonstrated the capability and willingness to silently nerf their models to stop behavior that they don't think is acceptable.
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Yeah.
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And so that that this is the core issue.
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There's an assertion of authority that is reserved solely for them.
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And it's not just with their customers, it's not just with other companies, it's with the federal government.
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That is the fundamental issue.
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So we're the reaction, it actually does go back to that episode.
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And that's the issue here, is they're trying to dictate terms and
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The government is probably being dumb.
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