If you have to set up that many rules to get around the inherent flaw of “gambling on everyone’s lives” just run a normal ass poll. gets rid of unnecessary financial incentives

I will never understand why people seriously bet “yes” on these types of things. Like you either loose the bet and loose money or you win the bet and die

Technically yes, but Yud probably wouldn’t count that, since the AI didn’t have the express purpose of destroying everyone

So there’s a chance that Anthropic won’t be able to go after anyone with the Claude codebase because copyright laws?

This article on the brand of journalism that’s just parroting what the CEOs say, otherwise known as “CEO said a thing!” journalism

Oh really? Damn didn’t know that. Wouldn’t be surprised if Trump somehow manages to bypass the injunction, because Trump. You are right they could drop it due to their old person mental fatigue but they could keep chasing because this is a deeply petty and childish administration

On the subject of AI and the war in Iran, it feels pretty likely to me that the DoD will explode Anthropic with criminal/legal charges in August like they threatened to (unless Dario steps down), which will definitely be ugly

ChatGPT sex mode is also going to hell with Sora we hardly knew ye

Cheers, I’ll drink to that

their deal with Disney is also over, so hooray!

I mean there is a lot of crazy bullshit in there so I don’t blame anyone for getting derailed

One of the solutions proposed — I am not kidding — is “writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks.” It’s really funny imagining a software engineer being like “woah … like automating the boring stuff, you might say?”

If I’m getting this right, they’re going to cut the cost of automating everything…by automating more things?

For lawsuits that actually are happening, OpenAI is getting sued by dictionaries

Microsoft MIGHT be suing OpenAI

Strong might, since nothing is set in stone yet. There have been talks where Microsoft has threatened to sue but that’s it so far

Reading the article again, that definitely feels like the angle the author was going for

The Founder of Anthropic Says He Wants to Protect Humanity From AI. Just Don’t Ask How. another long article about the AI craze and in particular Anthropic. A snippet that stood out to me:

"Reviewing my interview transcripts one night, I discover I’d left my recorder running when I excused myself to use the bathroom at Anthropic. On the tape, Kyle Fish, the AI researcher, and Danielle Ghiglieri, my tattooed guide, are laughing about some visitors to their headquarters the day before, what sounds like a documentary or TV crew.

“I sit right next to Trenton,” Fish says. “I went back and told him, ‘Dude, you really did something to those guys with your sunscreen stuff yesterday.’ He thought it was hilarious.”

They’re both cracking up.

Ghiglieri says Fish, too, had convincingly come off as a “different species of human,” adding: “They were very enamored with you.”

They’re inclined to cooperate with whatever project these people proposed, she says, and make everybody a star. I hadn’t heard Trenton’s sunscreen spiel yet. Only later, over lunch, would he tell me that he stopped protecting himself against skin cancer because AI was going to end the world in five years.

Crazy to me how people can so confidently predict AI doomsday, and then just keep working at an AI company

get ready to read the worst set of words possibly ever

I wonder if one of the reasons Pete Hegseth is going so hard after Anthropic is that he and other idiots in the Pentagon unironically believes shit like AI 2027 and so wants to soft nationalize the frontier companies so to control the coming AGI.

That is absolutely the reason, or at least part of it. See: Pete Hegseth Got His Happy Meal and how AGI-is-nigh doomers own-goaled themselves

Reading comments cause I was bored, and had the misfortune to stumble upon this horribly formatted piece of work allegedly written by Claude

I mean after the Epstein Files you have to be either deliberately ignorant or incredibly dense to not realise the rich get off easily