Ironic, given they piggybacked on the entirety of human knowledge and massive amounts of GPL'd software and repeatedly say they want to replace people with a tool.

And now they say that's fine so long as people are entertained.

Pulling up the ladder behind you is a tradition as old as time.

That I can understand. It’s Anthropic’s right to choose their customers.

But silent degradation for use cases including “distributed training” as one of their examples is going to catch up a lot of proper use cases. Not everyone in AI or ML is trying to build frontier LLMs. Heck, most probably aren’t.

So they are lying then when they say it's for safety reasons.

I think if they want to behave anti competitively they should be honest about it and we should absolutely call them on it. Perhaps even regulators should.