alt Hacker Newsit's not a product decision, it's a safety decision. if you understood what they think they are building and the culture inside of anthropic you would understand why they did it.
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I think you can sympathize with the safety motives while still thinking this was a dumb implementation to degrade silently? I actually have faith in them getting the guardrail triggers pretty good, but consensus seems like they’re not yet there yet.
The road to hell is paved with "good" intentions.
> if you understood what they think they are building and the culture inside of anthropic you would understand why they did it.
This seems like a cult with extra steps.
Related: I interviewed for Anthropic a few months ago and in place of the usual HR call they have one where they have someone with a suspiciously relevant degree grill you about how committed you are to the 'mission'!
I probably came off as being skeptical, and then, hilariously, I was strongly encouraged to read the book published by the CEO to 'form accurate opinions' on AI safety.
We do understand why they did it, and the reason is dark and cynical.
Don't buy it. It is actively deceiving the customer and charging them for the privilige of being lied to.
They did it to make more money as you waste more time burning tokens with bad responses.
Safety from what? Competitors? That sounds like a product decision. They're puking on any requests that could be used to create LLMs or competitive products.