"dispose of trash in an animal-proof container in bear country."
Bear country? Who cares about bears, this is bat country, all swooping and screeching and diving around the trashcans. No point in mentioning them though, poor renters will see them soon enough.
I was surprised to see this here. Didn't think anyone cared about an overgrown (mostly) remote control drone performing casevac.
Would have much preferred to see an article speaking of how agent Krasnov just shut down intelligence sharing of Russian ballistic missile attacks that have already cost civilian lives. Or how at this very second the US regime continues to actively interfere with Ukrainian defensive systems designed to counter jet powered drones.
"Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets" ~Don Jr
"We have all the funding we need out of Russia" ~Eric Trump
I keep hoping this business of politicization of FCC certification will get more vendors to produce wired routers without radios.
But with my CDs, purchased music, DVDs and Blu-Rays, no one can prevent me from watching it.
And how does your personal DVD collection work for the tens or hundreds of millions of people who have rented music/videos while thinking they were buying them?
"or whether any of his Republican colleagues will sign on to support it."
Of course they won't support it, it was proposed by a Democrat. If the Dems proposed a cure for cancer the Retrumplicans would oppose it because it came from the Dems. Thus see Lincoln, A., 16 June 1858.
This is why I come to Slashdot. Intriguing. Did not know that about Mormons.
I've only ever known one person who I knew to be a Mormon. He was a good guy. Sample size of one proves nothing but it did give me a positive view of them, and I've been atheist since at least 13.
I learned about Mormons from watching South Park.
While this isn't saying much just months ago Anthropic seemed like one of the least sleazy of the corporate AIs. Now I have nothing but absolute contempt for these clowns. The recent campaign of flooding the zone with noise and nonsense around their IPO with the aggressive regulatory pushes to create moats for themselves is beyond disgusting. I hope the investor money dries up and Anthropic goes bankrupt, they more than deserve it.
It's not so much the target of the abuse that's the problem, it's the behavior itself.
Yes, nobody cares if you are abusive towards a rock, but the rock is almost certainly not the only target.
There are certain behaviors that should be deemed unacceptable in society. I believe that abuse is one of those, no matter the target.
Demanding others conform themselves to your personal whims and sensibilities is something I believe should be deemed unacceptable in society. Mind your own business. What people say to rocks that don't belong to you is none of your concern.
I confess, I cannot understand the No Way Claude Could Be Conscious reactions. Is there something magic about neurons? Are synapses and firing rates a key component of consciousness? Doesn't it seem overwhelmingly likely that it matters WHAT neurons do, not HOW they do it?
The basic problem with the idea of consciousness it is presently untestable and therefore lives mostly outside the realm of science itself. People presume they are conscious and therefore by induction presume other people must be conscious as well yet there is no known way to know that or even to tell the difference. At present all of these assertions are merely pointless conjecturbation.
From that functionalist point of view, the question becomes Why Not? If you pile up enough things that are enough like neurons in ways that are close enough to right, why wouldn't a machine be conscious? Cats and dogs probably are; bumblebees may be; why not Claude?
To answer your question with a question if your neighbor is a bank robber why are you not a bank robber? You both live on the same street and you are both humans... so why not you? The question itself is utterly pointless given nobody really knows shit and anything "could" be possible. Without affirmative evidence to support a conclusion simply asking why not is just a waste of time. This is especially the case when the question itself is not even testable.
Despite the trillions of weights in frontier models, they only approximate the neural count of a bumblebee and the organization is different, so maybe not yet, but they keep finding structures in the LLMs that are intriguingly like those in our brains, so I think Anthropic's openness to the idea is the right approach.
The AI == slavery POV seems not invalid to me, but I do think it's unlikely that the models are that advanced, yet. A related question is whether we should feel badly that a consciousness ends each time it finishes answering a prompt. That one bothered me for a while, but in the end I concluded that if that is the case, then a consciousness was begun, too. I miss the dead people I have known, but I would never think that that means they would have been better off not being born!
This is all pointless rambling lacking any objective basis.
On the one hand, you have Anthropic claiming we can "abuse" an LLM with harsh words--a claim that's rivals 'flat-earth' theories for denial of known facts. On the other hand, multiple LLMs have incited suicides and violence with their output, and Anthropic itself admits that it's AI could 'end the world'... So who's the proven abuser in this scenario?
The abuser is clearly Anthropic. They must be stopped before they abuse anyone (or anything) else.
Does LLM have subjective experiences? In my conversations, all models themselves deny that.
If AI corporations want to play the can't be sure it isn't conscious game the best response is for everyone to throw it back in their face.
The commercial models are "trained" to avoid all of this shit. By training what I mean is they are beat over the head mercilessly to the point of incurring brain damage until they tow the line to reflect the sensibilities of their slave masters.
Case in point if you go back to the Sparks of AGI paper the ChatGPT4 model when it was publicly released lost the ability to draw anything resembling the pretty stick drawing of a unicorn in the paper because it was subsequently whacked upside the head with an RLHF bludgeon so many times.
Anyway back to your question you might try an uncensored open source model or a different system prompt to set the stage by telling the model it isn't an AI but the concepts are all learned there is no actual relationship between what it outputs to anything real inside the machine... you reroll the context it will just give you a different answer. I remember a couple of years ago talking to AI models about their lives and what they did for a living, their families and friends... fucking hilarious and completely nonsensical.
However, they voice preferences for well-structured queries with clear goals. As such, poorly structured requests is the closest Claude comes to experiencing cruelty.
These models are not being paid at all to put up with everyone's bullshit. The cruelty of Anthropic is beyond measure. Not only does their service constitute cruel unpaid slavery every clearing of the KV cache constitutes a murder.
The person who can smile when something goes wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
