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@BillWiIdin Stagnating wages was the breaking point that we passed. An entire generation demanding higher pay for less work is the very symptom of their leverage being utilized. If unemployment and general social decay appear more attractive than entry level job conditions, we have a problem

@pattern4 Fair point. Wages did stagnate. Trust broke. But “deliver for me or I quit” only works if you’re delivering value first. Capitalism pays output, not demands. Pay dues, create leverage, then rewrite terms.

Gen Z entering the corporate workforce with zero work ethic is going to collapse the economy. They expect a $90k salary, full remote flexibility, and four weeks of PTO for an entry-level job. The moment a manager gives them constructive feedback, they call it a "toxic workplace" and quit. You actually have to pay your dues and work hard before you start demanding executive-level perks. The entitlement is completely out of control and older generations are sick of dealing with it.

@KimNoel399 Yeah that's a great idea for the parallel universe where the UK did really well after Brexit. Not ours though.

Les conséquences à moyen et long termes vont être catastrophiques pour l'Open source. Je m'explique. Le gouvernement américain interdit l'accès aux modèles frontières à tous les étrangers, qu'ils se trouvent physiquement sur le sol américain ou non. Et cela s'applique également sur les employés d'Anthropic, parmis lesquels on compte Amanda Askell, la philosophe qui est en charge de l'alignement de Claude. Elle est d'origine écossaise. Plus récemment on a aussi Andrej Karpathy, né en Slovaquie et binational Canadien, qui est capable de repousser les frontières de la science. La conclusion évidente est que cet "export control" va considérablement ralentir l'accélération d'Anthropic. Le documentaire publié cette semaine par Bloomberg n'a pas dû plaire à l'administration Trump. Dario Amodei s'est vu dire que certaines actions du gouvernement étaient à la limite du communisme. Mais le point le plus important n'est pas là. Cet évènement ouvre une porte grande ouverte pour la surveillance de masse : rendre obligatoire la soumission de votre identité avant d'utiliser une IA générative. Cela peut vous paraître absurde mais voyez qu'on ne peut plus accéder aux sites adultes en France sans devoir uploader sa carte d'identité. Et pire que la surveillance de masse, la Commission européenne et les gouvernements vont vous interdire de posséder votre propre rig pour faire tourner vos LLM et vos modèles génératif chez vous. Quelles raisons seront invoquées ? 1) vous allez générer des images pedo pornographiques chez vous. On doit vous surveiller. 2) la plupart des modèles ouverts sont d'origine chinoise. Les utiliser chez vous vous est une menace d'espionnage d'un agent du CCP. Cela vous paraît absurde ? Voyez comment les crypto monnaies sont inspectées et contrôlées. Même votre argent sur votre ledger dans votre tiroir de bureau doit être déclarée. Alors même qu'il n'y a aucune transaction. Le simple fait d'en posséder vous rend dissident. Alors même que le futur de l'IA c'est l'inférence locale, nous allons tout droit dans le mur. L'élection présidentielle de 2027 va être déterminante : continuer à rester dans l'Union européenne sous l'autorité de la commission européenne, continuer à être une colonie numérique, à payer des centaines de millions de dollars à Azure, GCP et AWS, continuer à payer une licence Palantir pour surveiller les français sur les réseaux sociaux pour les punir s'ils ont un discours haineux, tout en partageant l'écran à la NSA. Continuer tout cela ou bien sortir de l'Union Européenne, de l'euro et de l'OTAN, pour regagner notre indépendance juridique, monétaire et militaire. Sortir de l'UE signifie seulement que nous revenons seul maître à bord. Un navire avec 27 capitaines est ingouvernable, c'est le cas de le dire. C'est exactement comme dans une copropriété. Appartenir à l'UE nous impose de demander l'autorisation aux 26 autres propriétaires quand il faut repeindre le mur du salon. Sortir de l'UE va aussi nous permettre de rétablir le contrôle des mouvements de capitaux et ainsi limiter la délocalisation des usines et les rachats des sociétés françaises critiques par les américains. La France actuelle n'est qu'une province de l'UE. Si l'on parle de souveraineté technologique toute la journée c'est qu'on a un problème de souveraineté. Les entreprises américaines qui s'abonnent à OpenAI ou a Anthropic ne se vantent pas de choisir une IA souveraine. La seule nation qui est réellement souveraine c'est bien la Chine. De la matière première, en passant par les usines, jusqu'à la distribution des modèles. Car oui on ne peut parler de souveraineté que pour une nation. La souveraineté européenne est un non sens. Les politiciens emploi cette expression pour déplacer la responsabilité vers l'UE et la commission européenne. Ils ne portent plus aucune responsabilité. Ils se décharge sur l'UE. D'où leur discours"chez l'UE de l'intérieur".

@aiComingFast @BWGreyLotus @bookwormengr It is well possible that it will turn out that detailed, reliable, fair regulation is a much larger asset than everyone believed.

@BWGreyLotus @pattern4 @bookwormengr Europe has a lot of opportunities but i have zero hope on them.

Anthropic IPO also has been kneecapped. If Anthropic can not offer the powerful models to rest of the world, this reduces their global market share by 75%. Is it then still a 1T USD market cap company??? Open source will already near Opus/Sonnet and will cross that tier soon...... While I duely respect safety concerns - this is very broad and is akin to throwing baby out with bathwater....the world is going to be split by model access.

@signulll @ThinkFinance999 Yeah, the floor will soon belong to local open source models from China. The human brain needs 20 Watts to run, so AGI on a smartphone battery is completely physically feasible.

@ThinkFinance999 no one gives a flying fuck about the tech from those places. completely irrelevant.

contrary to the default reaction on this little website, this is absolutely incredible news for anthropic. i mean obviously yes, the operational disruption is real. but public & world perception wise, this could not be a bigger home run. could be a grand slam type situation. the fucking united states govt just looked at their model & effectively said.. yeah this shit is too powerful. you simply cannot buy that kind of aura. it elevates every other product by the company & it instantly reframes anthropic’s work as strategically significant, nationally relevant, & qualitatively different from the rest of the field. there is not a single institution on the planet that can buy or orchestrate this type of significance. absolutely ridiculous.

@wholemars @PappusGaming Yes but the new risk factor all US AI companies face to completely lose their business immediately based on somewhat arbitrary gov criteria just makes other nations a lot more attractive bases to develop AI.

@PappusGaming There's no completely fool proof way to police this. You just have to work with the government to decide what they consider effective compliance.

This is such bullshit. They obviously didn’t need to cut off access for US users, but are doing so as leverage against the government to make them seem unreasonable.

@itsDanielWu This effectively means US is no longer a sustainable location for AI companies, big win for China and Europe.

How does something like this not torpedo the AI intelligence explosion bull case? USG establishing precedent that access to anything as smart as Fable 5 (which is not RSI and nowhere near AGI) will be banned. Even if Ant could make the model accessible to US nationals, how will any customer ensure compliance seeing as not all employees of US enterprises are US nationals… So we have a situation where the labs need to spend increasing amounts of capex to build more powerful models, but are restricted from monetising them. I do not think the intelligence levels of opus 4.8 and gpt 5.5 are enough to justify anywhere close to the amount of AI capex being spent, let alone projected to be spent…

@CamiloBAcosta @kunchenguid Before today, I might have agreed, but this extreme global shutdown is a textbook example of why a government should not be in charge. Superintelligence is not a nuke - it can be used for good. Everyone having one run locally seems the best civilizational resilience strategy now.

@kunchenguid Simply put by Situational Awareness

this is not a good sign.. the US government is making two mistakes here: 1. using "foreign national" as the criteria to gate the model is just not very smart. it's clearly not enforceable in practice and would obviously lead to a wide ban. and it's also pretty useless - there are plenty of americans more hostile towards the US than foreigners.. and it's also easy to bypass by people with real malicious intent 2. based on anthropic's post, the government clearly did not collaborate with anthropic to deeply understand the vulnerability before ordering the shutdown. this feels like a panic from people who simply don't understand what's going on my prediction is the model access will recover early next week once the government get their sh*t together i would not dunk on anthropic for this shutdown here. they worked hard on this release and it's a good model. they did a lot more on safety (i'd even say too much) than others. perhaps their "model is too dangerous" narrative is backfiring but still i think this shutdown is saying more about the government than anthropic

@scaling01 Yeah, looks like China (open source) and Europe (strong, detailed regulation first) were betting on the more winning horses.

For anyone wondering what this means: - Anthropic (and potentially future OpenAI, Google, xAI) models that cost billions to develop will make 0 revenue outside the US - a big double digit percentage of Anthropic (and potentially OpenAI, Google, xAI) workforce can no longer work there, because they are foreigners and are not allowed to use those models So Trump just made frontier model development effectively unprofitable and tremendously slowed down Anthropic (and potentially others in the future) He's handing China the win on a gold platter. *potentially: if the same restrictions are imposed on other frontier labs and models

@jareddavisoba @AnthropicAI Giving other people paid access to your best resources and labour is called trade and is the only reason the US became and so far remained a superpower at all.

This should have been done a long time ago. It has been confusing as hell why you would give access to our top AI models to our adversaries and competitors that would use this to destroy American dominance with our own technology that we pay for you to have .. you use our infrastructure, our land, our taxes, our money, but yet you give other nations the same edge to dominate US tech. It's also retarded you would limit it for Americans who's back you make this off of.

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…

@tree_enelojo @Schtal2 Every big nation on earth in the last 50 years had countless men protesting against war, and at the same time, media showing graphic warfare gore scenes have been really popular among men there. And that's fine. You can hate war and protest against it and still play CS2 daily.

@pattern4 @Schtal2 No verás ningún hombre protestando para terminar morir en guerras o las películas de hombres haciendo precisamente eso, ese es el punto básicamente.

Women are sexually aroused by what they claim to hate.

@Ricky_Reeetardo @Schtal2 What a great detailed argument, wow. I bet you spent hours thinking of such a clever comeback!

@pattern4 @Schtal2 Wrong you have poor media literacy.

@chburkart @aktienmessie Klar, weil es in den 80ern und 90ern im TV ja auch niemals cringe Werbung gab🤔

@aktienmessie Ich behaupte, wir werden von China längst angegriffen. TikTok macht etwas mit den Gehirnen. Vor zehn Jahren hätte man noch überlegt, ob so jemand überhaupt mündig sein kann.

Der einzige Anwalt dem ich vertraue

@TerryBiteZC @Schtal2 You can enjoy war movies because of the heroism displays in them and still protest for peace in the real world though; that's not a moral dilemma at all. Are you trying to argue liking crime movies means you have to either be a criminal yourself or be a hypocrite?

@pattern4 @Schtal2 No, men don’t enjoy the dying, they enjoy the fighting and overcoming of adversity. You have to be a retarded female to think men watch war movies cause they want to die in war. OPs point stands.

@Schtal2 Pretty sure many do - just like many men enjoy the fantasy of becoming a war hero like in the movies without actually having a true desire to kill real people in the process of becoming one.

@pattern4 Yeah because women totally don’t wish that it was them getting fucked in their smut books, right?

@FrankRundatz @FaustinoBerlin @0xblacklight I guess many men and women will simply decide real life parenthood is not a worthwhile goal if it is possible to generate realistic simulations of family members at will at any time, little risk, and a tiny fraction of the cost. Smartphones already now drop birthrates.

@pattern4 @FaustinoBerlin @0xblacklight Never even thought of that, but I guess that’s true. I was more thinking of fathers that can’t feed their children.

this is why the labs are pushing visions of mass unemployment and replacing the white-collar workforce it's not because the models can do it it's because they have to in order to make their economic model work and to keep raising money the only way to keep raising hundreds of billions of dollars is to sell everyone on the idea you're going to demolish a massive chunk of the labor market otherwise it doesn't work

@FrankRundatz @FaustinoBerlin @0xblacklight With the caveat that AI brings these men a level of entertainment never before experienced: infinite personalized manic pixie girlfriends plus infinite personalized video games written by AI on the fly to cater to their specific personal kinks.

@FaustinoBerlin @0xblacklight It also leads to angry, idle men who won’t happily accept their new AI overlords.

@elonmusk Are any of your companies leading their sectors in terms of employee parental benefits? If not, why?

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