I guess I’m more willing to treat Anthropic’s marketing as not-representing-Anthropic. Shrug. [Edit: like, maybe it’s consistent-with-being-a-good-guy-and-basically-honest to exaggerate your product in a similar way to everyone else. (You risk the downsides of creating hype but that’s a different issue than the integrity thing.)]
It is disappointing that Anthropic hasn’t clarified its commitments after the post-launch confusion, one way or the other.
I guess I’m more willing to treat Anthropic’s marketing as not-representing-Anthropic. Shrug.
I feel sympathetic to this, but when I think of the mess of trying to hold an organization accountable when I literally can’t take the public statements of the organization itself as evidence, then that feels kind of doomed to me. It feels like it would allow Anthropic to weasel itself out of almost any commitment.
I guess I’m more willing to treat Anthropic’s marketing as not-representing-Anthropic.
Like, when OpenAI marketing says GPT-4 is our most aligned model yet! you could say this shows that OpenAI deeply misunderstands alignment but I tend to ignore it. Even mostly when Sam Altman says it himself.
[Edit after habryka’s reply: my weak independent impression is that often the marketing people say stuff that the leadership and most technical staff disagree with, and if you use marketing-speak to substantially predict what-leadership-and-staff-believe you’ll make worse predictions.]
Oh, I have indeed used this to update that OpenAI deeply misunderstands alignment, and this IMO has allowed me to make many accurate predictions about what OpenAI has been doing over the last few years, so I feel good about interpreting it that way.
Thanks.
I guess I’m more willing to treat Anthropic’s marketing as not-representing-Anthropic. Shrug. [Edit: like, maybe it’s consistent-with-being-a-good-guy-and-basically-honest to exaggerate your product in a similar way to everyone else. (You risk the downsides of creating hype but that’s a different issue than the integrity thing.)]
It is disappointing that Anthropic hasn’t clarified its commitments after the post-launch confusion, one way or the other.
I feel sympathetic to this, but when I think of the mess of trying to hold an organization accountable when I literally can’t take the public statements of the organization itself as evidence, then that feels kind of doomed to me. It feels like it would allow Anthropic to weasel itself out of almost any commitment.
Like, when OpenAI marketing says GPT-4 is our most aligned model yet! you could say this shows that OpenAI deeply misunderstands alignment but I tend to ignore it. Even mostly when Sam Altman says it himself.
[Edit after habryka’s reply: my weak independent impression is that often the marketing people say stuff that the leadership and most technical staff disagree with, and if you use marketing-speak to substantially predict what-leadership-and-staff-believe you’ll make worse predictions.]
Oh, I have indeed used this to update that OpenAI deeply misunderstands alignment, and this IMO has allowed me to make many accurate predictions about what OpenAI has been doing over the last few years, so I feel good about interpreting it that way.