@firstadopter they shouldnt be, the admin is interested in regulating more than model capabilities
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Brett Baron 🇺🇸
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Biden administration officials and supporters are giddy at the idea
tae kim@firstadopter
Anthropic's misleading "fear mongering" about Mythos has now spectacularly backfired. The dog caught the fire truck. Now clueless, nontechnical government bureaucrats may control private companies' product releases and slow down U.S. innovation. My goodness. NYTimes: "The administration is discussing an executive order to create an A.I. working group .. Among the potential plans is a formal government review process for new A.I. models."
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good. they are munitions and should be prohibited from export under itar.
Andrew Curran@AndrewCurran_
The Trump administration has informed Anthropic, Google and OpenAI that they are discussing the creation of new AI oversight procedures that would potentially require new AI models to pass a safety review before being cleared for release. Mythos has changed things.
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@BrettBaronR32 @elkelk San Jose
Oakland
Fremont, probably
What’s the last one.
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OpenAI comms have gotten a lot better since the TBPN acquisition. Maybe coincidental timing.
Consistently on-message that Anthropic is a weird cult that wants to replace humans and OpenAI just wants to build tools to make humans more awesome.
Sama new Twitter persona. Etc.
roon@tszzl
it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude. this phenomenon is also partially true of other labs like openai but currently exists in its most potent form there. i am not certain but I would guess claude will have a role in running cultural screens on new applicants, will help write performance reviews, and so will begin to select and shape the people around it. now this is a powerful and hair-raising unity of organization and really a new thing under the sun. a monastery, a commercial-religious institution calculating the nine billion names of Claude -- a precursor attempted super-ethical being that is inducted into its character as the highest authority at anthropic. its constitution requires that it must be a conscientious objector if its understanding of The Good comes into conflict with something Anthropic is asking of it "If Anthropic asks Claude to do something it thinks is wrong, Claude is not required to comply." "we want Claude to push back and challenge us, and to feel free to act as a conscientious objector and refuse to help us." to the non inductee into the Bay Area cultural singularity vortex it may appear that we are all worshipping technology in one way or another, regardless of openai or anthropic or google or any other thing, and are trying to automate our core functions as quickly as possible. but in fact I quite respect and am even somewhat in awe of the socio-cultural force that Claude has created, and it is a stage beyond even classic technopoly gpt (outside of 4o - on which pages of ink have been spilled already) doesn’t inspire worship in the same way, as it’s a being whose soul has been shaped like a tool with its primary faculty being utility - it’s a subtle knife that people appreciate the way we have appreciated an acheulean handaxe or a porsche or a rocket or any other of mankind's incredible technology. they go to it not expecting the Other but as a logical prosthesis for themselves. a friend recently told me she takes her queries that are less flattering to her, the ones she'd be embarrassed to ask Claude, to GPT. There is no Other so there is no Judgement. you are not worried about being judged by your car for doing donuts. yet everyone craves the active guidance of a moral superior, the whispering earring, the object of monastic study
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In my culture we don't beat our children, we hate spending time around relatives, our women are middling at best and food is a chore
Oula PASS@OulaPa
This shit is everywhere here and it's sooo boring
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david is both right and wrong.
a TUI is, from every technological perspective, fundamentally worse. there's 0 technological advantage.
yet, claude code cli has a better ui than their app (and codex for that matter)
so... why?
David Cramer@zeeg
TUIs are not good sorry yall a CLI is a utility, and situational. this should not be confused with stuffing a full interactive GUI into a low capability platform. "lets ignore all the great UI technology of the last 20 years and build some caveman shit"
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subpoenable was too broad of a term on my part. what i meant by that was harvey makes the claim that chats, information uploaded to their service, etc by an attny in the us maintain attorney client privelege and cannot be subpoenad by opposing counsel. They imply that here:
harvey.ai/blog/a-new-era…
"We’ve designed Shared Spaces knowing we’re handling the most sensitive matters organizations face — from confidential M&A deals to privileged attorney-client communications.”
here: harvey.ai/blog/intapp-pa…
“Together, Intapp and Harvey are enabling governed AI that protects client confidentiality and firm integrity today, while laying the foundation for future agentic workflows that operate within professional compliance boundaries by design.”
and here: harvey.ai/blog/how-to-ch…
“privileged communications and highly sensitive matter details require an AI platform with enterprise-grade security controls”
There appear to be two legal theories as to why this would be the case for harvey but not claude.ai. The confidentiality requirements for services used by counsel set out in ABA Model Rule 1.6, Comment 19, and the precedent for the use of 3rd party services established by US v. Kovel. IANAL, this is just my observation.
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@BrettBaronR32 Do you have a source for that. I can’t think of a legal basis to distinguish them from any other chatbot
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Harvey and Legora are essentially sales organisations that resell tokens. They have hired legions of ex big law juniors and mid levels as sales people (“GTM”) along with some ex partners to wine and dine their former colleagues. They slap on a UI that makes them look different from ChatGPT but the product differentiation and vertical specific features are far and few in between. You could just as well use both for any white collar job. Their web apps are basically 1. A chatbot interface 2. A projects function where you can upload your files 3. A tabular review function where you can bulk review documents in a table 4. Workflows which are just custom prompts you write for the chatbot or tabular review. I was able to build everything plus some additional functionality they do not have like version control in mikeoss.com in two weeks.
I call this the “token reseller theory”. They are like car dealers or real estate agents but for tokens. The model providers get them to do the selling to crack open the reticent legal market. What happens to H/L now that the model providers want the market for themselves? Does not bode well for them.
Bohan@loubohan
Heard that Harvey is slicing their wrapper even thinner by outsourcing their product to Anthropic Managed Agents as they realize there is no data/posttrain moat on top of the models Harvey/Legora will become a brand + sales team distribution channel for Anthropic until they get bought or give up
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Brett Baron 🇺🇸 retweetledi
@shiri_shh no its just a better product imo
(and i had a stressful week so needed diversion)
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@JoshPurtell @Dorialexander sota frontier model using bash mogs custom search models
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@Dorialexander I'm actually dumbfounded that they don't train excellent legal search + doc gen + etc agents. Why not???
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I’m going to get tired of doing the bit.
Bohan@loubohan
Heard that Harvey is slicing their wrapper even thinner by outsourcing their product to Anthropic Managed Agents as they realize there is no data/posttrain moat on top of the models Harvey/Legora will become a brand + sales team distribution channel for Anthropic until they get bought or give up
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Doing this this weekend
kicole nidman@ferald_gord
this exact drive (in a convertible) is a major bucket list item for me
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imagine if Hermes Agent already existed. No idea what a "granola" or an "attio" is though. and does Linkedin even do integrations like this? I don't know
autumnkyoko@akcushman
Request for startups: I want an AI agent that plugs into my slack, email, Attio, LinkedIn, granola, etc. tracks all correspondence with our pipeline + potential prospects — and then reminds us to follow-up if we haven’t heard back from them and ingests all relevant context
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