Would that have actually given them more money and clout than this big partnership, though? Especially if publicly-sold Mythos would’ve then ushered in an Internet apocalypse, tanking their reputation and potentially enraging the USG/the public in a way that would have led to regulation or massive lawsuits that they would have lost?
I agree that it would probably be a disaster but I can easily imagine someone (probably not Anthropic themselves, but probably someone like xAI or Meta, possibly even OpenAI or Google) not seeing it. It’s not any more obvious than it was that what SBF was doing would backfire, and yet he did that anyway...
Well, they could have just sold unfiltered API access to their consumers.
Would that have actually given them more money and clout than this big partnership, though? Especially if publicly-sold Mythos would’ve then ushered in an Internet apocalypse, tanking their reputation and potentially enraging the USG/the public in a way that would have led to regulation or massive lawsuits that they would have lost?
I agree that it would probably be a disaster but I can easily imagine someone (probably not Anthropic themselves, but probably someone like xAI or Meta, possibly even OpenAI or Google) not seeing it. It’s not any more obvious than it was that what SBF was doing would backfire, and yet he did that anyway...