Gideon Lewis-Kraus

And I think I can generalize and say that almost everyone at Anthropic had the feeling that they were moving too quickly and the entire industry was moving too quickly and that it would be nice if there were some solution to this collective action problem that would allow everyone to slow down.

But, you know, there are a whole range of different responses to that.

There are people who said to me openly, you know, I really think we should slow down or maybe we should even stop.

And it would be nice if some external force came in and and made everybody take their time with the development of this technology.

You know, there were other people who felt like.

Well, if we're not the ones who are going to do this safely and responsibly, then we are just ceding the terrain to the more vulgar power seeking that we see among some of our competitors.

So it's not an easy position to be in.

Well, Claude is Anthropix competitor to ChatGPT.

It can be used just on a website like ChatGPT can be to ask it questions about recipes or how to fix broken household objects or to do research or to consult it about personal issues.

It seems like many, many people, probably more people than are willing to admit use these

for what they call affective uses, for a sense of friendship or advice or help with business or interpersonal issues or more therapeutic issues.

But it also, the company has put a lot of effort into developing a coding assistant that helps people write software.

And that has been hugely successful.

And in the last two months has even kind of gone viral.

There are lots of people who are now vibe coding their own apps for their personal use.

Well, Claude has developed a reputation over the past few years for having a bit more of a personality.

There are lots of people who like interacting with Claude because it feels a little more eccentric.

It feels a little more lively.

It has this kind of strange sense of self-possession.

It doesn't feel quite as robotic as ChatGPT can feel.