Anyone who's dealt with their insane arbitrary account bans knows exactly what's under the hood at Anthropic as a company, a headless chicken pecking at buttons.
I'm a long paying customer, my only usage at all of Claude is for devops IAC and debugging, suddenly out of the blue they decided to ban my account and keep the money. It's unreal.
The response to my appeal said after "lengthy consideration" I had broke the T&C's.
> Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s impacts on the labor market and global economy and to develop policy proposals to prepare for the shift.
“Everybody’s asking questions about what are the economic impacts [of AI], both positive and negative,” Sarah Heck, head of policy programs and partnerships at Anthropic, told TechCrunch. “It’s really important to root these conversations in evidence and not have predetermined outcomes or views on what’s going to [happen].”
Sounds more like "oh shit, public opinion moves in the wrong direction and governments are threatening regulation, so we need some scientific-looking papers we can whip out to support our narrative - and 'policy proposals' to fend off regulation."
Especially when the next paragraph shows what they understand as "evidence-based":
> At least one prominent name has shared his views on the potential economic impact of AI: Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei. In May, Amodei predicted that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to as high as 20% in the next one to five years.
Jack Clark was out before congress yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDNrUZBZDA4 - fwiw, I've known Jack for almost 20 years now and we talk relatively regularly, he's not in marketing, and he means what he says.
I'm a long paying customer, my only usage at all of Claude is for devops IAC and debugging, suddenly out of the blue they decided to ban my account and keep the money. It's unreal.
The response to my appeal said after "lengthy consideration" I had broke the T&C's.
“Everybody’s asking questions about what are the economic impacts [of AI], both positive and negative,” Sarah Heck, head of policy programs and partnerships at Anthropic, told TechCrunch. “It’s really important to root these conversations in evidence and not have predetermined outcomes or views on what’s going to [happen].”
Sounds more like "oh shit, public opinion moves in the wrong direction and governments are threatening regulation, so we need some scientific-looking papers we can whip out to support our narrative - and 'policy proposals' to fend off regulation."
Especially when the next paragraph shows what they understand as "evidence-based":
> At least one prominent name has shared his views on the potential economic impact of AI: Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei. In May, Amodei predicted that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to as high as 20% in the next one to five years.
This is either marketing or virtue signaling or both.
That's a "prediction" by Amodei.
It's just words. Pure bullshit. Diminishing my otherwise high opinion of Anthropic.
Easily the biggest reason I left anthropic recruiter on read.