alt Hacker News*Anthropic apologizes they got caught defending their moat by implementing invisible Claude Fable guardrails
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afthonos • today at 4:53 PM
They didn’t get caught, they explicitly said they would do that in the announcement. I think it was both bad and a weird idea, but it certainly wasn’t sneaky.
cyanydeez • today at 4:40 PM
is it a moat or just a way to implement the permanent underclass?
If by "got caught" you mean "published it in their system card paper".
(Admittedly it was buried pretty deep in that 300+ page PDF, but they did at least disclose it. If they hadn't I imagine it would have taken quite some time for the research community to figure out what was going on.)