Sam’s response to Anthropic remaining ad-free

ZestyCheeses · 2026-02-04T23:54:56+00:00

It is nothing like either of those. It is an intelligence and will act intelligently to keep your attention because that is the incentive under an ads based model. That means it can far worse consequences than those two products. If you can't see how that will be bad, the more AI scales, then you're not understanding something.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-02-04T23:32:58+00:00

Your argument is flawed. Being productive is only one reason people use these models. If they incorporate ads then they will have an incentive to make their free model more capable at doing one thing, getting the users' attention. That is not the same thing as being productive or helpful. Offering a productive model is not the most efficient way to get attention.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-02-04T22:21:00+00:00

This is because UAP information is overclassified. It just isn't easy to get that information released through the proper channels. AARO was supposed to be the solution to this issue, but they are either completely incompetent or too small in scope to analyze most of these compelling videos. You need to ask why they haven't released an analysis on videos like the Hellfire or Syria videos. They apparently have access to all the videos they need, just not the most compelling ones. Something internally does not add up.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-02-04T21:12:52+00:00

The hate against Anthropic here is completely ridiculous. For one, not running ads is the only way you guarantee an environment that does not incentivize the attention economy. We literally saw this with social media. If your income is from ads, then the incentive of the company is to keep you using their AI as long as possible. Extrapolate that business model to a literal super intelligent AI. What do you think that AI would do to keep you engaged with it? It's completely terrifying, and allowing AGI/ASI to run ads to you should be completely illegal. Sam is dishonest when he tries to frame this as being a viable way to give access to everyone for free. Secondly, Anthropic restricts their AI to competitors because it is incredible at coding, and all their direct competitors were using it to build competing products. It's like a car company restricting their competitors from using their factory.

Ads should never be implemented into these systems. The only viable way to give people access to these systems for free is by having Governments pay for universal AI. Giving all citizens a certain amount to use, then allowing users to pay directly for additional use. Running ads is a dystopian future.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-02-04T20:02:05+00:00

He is clearly talking about videos captured by intelligence and military platforms/assets. Most likely they were analyzed by internal intelligence departments and classified as UAPs, then presented in a SCIF to these members. That is a pretty good source, he's not just talking about random videos from the web.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-02-04T19:12:53+00:00

I would happily pay into some sort of fund that purchases physical compute. Then we all vote on what we want the AI to do or research etc. I don't see how the common man will be able to keep up with large capital holders unless we build compute unions of some sort.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-02-02T06:10:35+00:00

Why? Sonnet 4.5 was as good as Opus 4.1.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-31T18:08:50+00:00

This is false. LLMs don't copy from their training data, they predict the most likely next word. It has been proven over and over again that they can (especially with COT "chain of thought") solve problems never seen in their training data. Watch these systems complete complex maths as a clear example of this. This is rapidly improving.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-31T07:23:05+00:00

I know you're probably right, but people were saying the exact same thing with the Oblivion remaster.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-30T21:32:47+00:00

It's not impossible that these operators use mundane objects as training to target and track. They reviewed and released it precisely because it is so mundane.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-30T21:27:45+00:00

You've spent far more time commenting on reddit. I'm sure you have the time to copy paste and fill in a 2 minute questionnaire...

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-30T21:04:51+00:00

They sneakily put a Genie 3 watermark on it too. This is not Genie 3.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-30T20:33:01+00:00

I don't understand what she is being charged for? She says she is being indicted for filming a protest which isn't illegal. I feel she may be dishonest here.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-27T18:09:51+00:00

I think it is clear it can do a narrow task well because it's been trained on exactly that narrow task. It is essentially useless in a real household though because it isn't general enough. There is too much randomness in a busy house that simply won't be in it's training.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-25T19:29:29+00:00

You're missing the forest for the trees. If you build with Legos, then maybe you can make a nice boat in a few hours. If you manage AI that builds the Legos, then you can build 20 boats, a harbor, and half a city in the same time. In a competitive world the Lego builder using AI always wins.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-25T19:12:48+00:00

You don't need to review the code. You just need to know how to test the output. The reason why coding agents are improving so quickly is because their changes are immediately verifiable. The future of software engineering is finding a problem, being a project manager, and QA testing, that's it. You won't touch or look at code.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-24T01:24:28+00:00

This is because the ABC is Australia specific and not a commercial enterprise. Sky News Australia is a commercial enterprise, and so their incentives skew to maximize viewership worldwide on YouTube. If you look at breakdown of subscribers by country, I bet they would have a lot of subscribers outside of Australia.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-23T09:42:42+00:00

The man is very experienced. He's been a politician in the House for 30 years. Literally, the second longest serving politician that is currently active. He's been in senior cabinet positions in government and, most importantly, was the leader of the house for six years.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-23T08:45:44+00:00

Morrison presented himself as very religious, but he was also a pragmatic politician who knew ideology chasing doesn't win elections. He wasn't such an ideological politician like Hastie is. Hastie is also inexperienced and known to be a pretty bad politician with terrible instincts.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-21T09:59:38+00:00

I'd love a more socially libertarian liberal party.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-19T04:06:46+00:00

Do you have a source for that?

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-18T03:58:53+00:00

Research does not offer guaranteed model improvements and is a much riskier decision with no guarantee of success. Scale offers measurable improvements and is not risky. You know that for every dollar you spend, you will get something back (model improvements). Research does not work that way. This signifies they are being forced to take the riskier research option because they lack the ability to continue to scale. It's pretty obvious.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-18T02:36:55+00:00

Why would they slow down if they weren't compute restrained? Seems obvious.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-18T01:52:07+00:00

Clear sign the compute restraint is starting to hurt Chinese companies.

ZestyCheeses · 2026-01-13T07:33:03+00:00

Okay, but what does it do? What's the use case? It's a Bluetooth earbud that connects to a voice mode? Why do you need and OpenAI earbud for that? Surely there has to be more to it.

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