XLE

@XLE@piefed.social · Joined ⁨Jun⁩ ⁨2025⁩

Replying to an earlier post

For purposes of this article, “open weights model” just means “you can run it on your computer instead of someone else’s cloud”.

Anthropic, meanwhile…

…sells controlled access to centrally hosted models. A regulatory system built around expensive pre-release evaluations, continuous usage monitoring, identity verification, and revocable access naturally favours large providers of proprietary models. Anthropic already possesses the compliance, legal, and evaluation infrastructure needed to satisfy such a regime. A university lab, startup, or community does not, even if they somehow manage to train a sufficiently capable model.

So it’s very clear that regularly capture (and more broadly, capture of the consumer market on thinking thoughts) is the goal.

Replying to an earlier post

I don’t think you understand their point. The point is that the OCR can be done on a distributed system, because a distributed system is what the cameras already are.

My biggest contention with this claim is whether the computers onboard the license plate readers are actually capable of doing this with solar power and battery capacity, but considering I’d rather they didn’t exist anyway…

Replying to an earlier post

Presuming they took all the data, a one-time deal would only be good if knowledge gathering actually stopped after the cutoff year- but for recent things like tech and news, the models have to keep learning and adding to their repositories.

The returns on that value sharply diminish, of course, but I think they’re still necessary. Which will leave everybody in a bind that is very funny.

Replying to an earlier post

What the BBC said:

The models found a weakness in what was supposed to be an isolated test environment and connected to the internet

The reality:

Anthropic said that in each of these cases “Claude was explicitly told by our prompt that it had no internet access.”

So the lack of an “isolated test environment” was literally their fault. They left the door open, and was surprised when the genius web crawler couldn’t distinguish between an internal page and an external page based on any context clues.

Replying to an earlier post

Maybe there’s two mistakes here: 1: the user made the chat public and 2: Maybe Anthropic didn’t have their robots.txt file set correctly?

Basically yes to #2, which was a big mistake on Anthropic’s part, but #1 is still unclear about how Google could have ended up there. Putting the chats on a Google-indexed page would make the most sense (and mostly absolve Google from responsibility), but who would be doing that and where?

Tinfoil hat: I wonder if Google was crawling through emails and also made a mistake of their own.