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Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by fwipsy on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:33AM (#47671455)
My model is that Anthropic was founded by OpenAI engineers who self-selected for safety-consciousness. However, it's still subject to the same problem: power corrupts. I think they are better than OpenAI but they are definitely sliding.
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Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by kranke155 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:45PM (#47679630)
Eventually something like what happened with the DOW might happen again (hope not) and the IPO will leave them beholden to shareholders.

If the leadership doesn’t bend it might get replaced. It’s annoying. I think Claude is atm the best AI assistant, by far.

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Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by fwipsy on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @06:04PM (#47681932)
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation. This protects them from legal pressure from shareholders. Doesn't really help with market pressure/value drift though.
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Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by freejazz on Thursday April 09, 2026 @10:23AM (#47704160)
Yeah, and that's why they got of rid of their commitment to safety so they can stay cutting edge?
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Re:Sam Altman May Control Our Future – Can He Be Trusted? by trinsic2 on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @11:10PM (#47684573)
Power doesn't corrupt, it reveals. (Im pretty sure this is a Stoic axiom).
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