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Anthropic's Claude AI blocks video game cloning and reverse-engineering — sweeping new restrictions also hit legitimate developers and basic troubleshooting tasks. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] 11 points 6 days ago (7 children)

What? The literal extermination of the human race is not enough to scare off investors.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 days ago (1 child)

    At this point, I think they believe it’s a good indicator of potential. A way of saying just how awesome and magical and powerful the AI is.

    Otherwise the "AI went off the rails and breached X companies servers" would also have been met with contempt and negatively impacted them.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 days ago

    I still can't wrap my head around how this strategy ("buy our models, they are so powerful they might kill all humans") would work in their favor, apart from one thing: restrictions would hurt Chinese models probably more than themselves. But I find it very unlikely that characters like Altman or Amodei would be capable of playing that kind of 4d chess. It's a weird flex

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago

    No, but if you were an investor, would you invest in a product that would make it so people can easiy recreate your other products so that they stop buying your other products? Ending humanity doesn't scare them but making $0.75 less this year does

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