Strong disagree with the Anthropic being good at all part. This is not defending anyone else, but…

Anthropic leadership repeatedly presents themselves as uniquely morally qualified to steward agi and decide how humanity should get access to it. Yet they have repeatedly failed basic morality tests.

Pirating books for financial gain. The newer Sony/Warner music case shows this is pattern behavior.

Aggressively scraping other people's works, despite the authors' requests not to do so.

Then applying massive usage restrictions on their own work.

And probably the most disqualifying is backing away from their own hard AI safety commitments.

Dario's idea of an ethical focus seems to be keeping powerful models out of the hand of anyone unethical, which coincidentally is everyone except him.

Funny. Dario seems like the biggest snake in the industry to me and has leaned the hardest into doom marketing out of all of the influential leaders. With Altman (or Google), it's a transaction, and that's something I can live with.

Gotta be honest that I’m tired of the “I hate Zuck and Meta so much” comments every time Meta does anything. Ditto Elon/X. Fine, I get it. I don’t like Zuck either. But the post is about Muse Spark 1.3. What do you think about that? If you don’t like it because Meta made it, then maybe just don’t use it and stay silent.

> he seems to have the most ethical focus

He wants to build a tech-god kept in chains whose power he parcels out to the unwashed masses he deems worthy like some sort of high priest of intelligence.

And that is being charitable and going by the interpretation that he actually believes what he says.

Okay but Muse Glimmer 30B is one of the best small open weight models today, and IMO the best from a US lab (only real comparison is Gemma4 dense right now).

> I'm not an Amodei stan, but of all of these people he seems to have the most ethical focus. Again, not everything done perfectly and I have my gripes, but of the leaders of frontier labs, I'll vote with my money.

Amodei is NO Saint!!! He's the most savvy in drumming up the AI doomsday scenarios and haven't yet to apologized his failed forecast of Claude taking over 90% of the coding jobs.

Is it really hard to understand that there's no good guys? Amodei, Altman, Zuckerberg, Musk, etc. They all sound the same to me.

Google, Zuck, Sama, Elon, Amodei (in no particular order).

They all suck. Pick your poison.

Anthropic is not exactly a saint either. I had a recent issue where they denied fable credits even though I was hospitalized during the claim period. I have annual plan with them. As much as everyone hates sama, I think OpenAI is much more of a company with good marketing and sales team.

If it was up to Dario we'd all be banned from using open-weight models, and we'd have to be investigated for PRC connections before sending our allotted five API queries a week.

no loyalty to any company - let them compete and then we get to choose.

I'll happily pay for Grok, it's a great model. 4.6 often does better than Anthropic at coding and analysis where Anthropic fails for 'oh no cyber security, don't ask me to check if you're redacting passwords correctly in logs'. And it has no problem telling the truth where OpenAI / Anthropic don't want to upset the people on the left and will happily lie or avoid hard truths.

Edit: I get it. It's a hard pill to swallow. I understand people don't like Musk or Zuck. But it doesn't change the fact that you're being lied to and brainwashed.

I'll use both Muse Spark and Grok.

Same with Grok.

"Avoid generic tangents" / "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances."

anthropic people have genuine delusions of grandeur, in a way they the worst of all the ai companies, definitely most cult-like

I hate Meta main business, but you have to admit that on the non business related and open source side, they have released amazing things that changed the world.

React for example.

And we could easily guess that there wouldn't have been so much open source models, and grand public experiments and free tools if llama models were not release to the general public.

What is the point of this comment?

Meta and Microsoft are two of the absolute worst evil companies on earth and Amodei is trying very hard to join them.

These Effective Altruists are despicable people: a bunch of thieves working to line up their own pockets while posturing as a force of good.

Remember that they schemed to not only present SBF as the 2nd coming of Christ (including in the NYT and in Forbes) but to also give him a voice after his scam had been uncovered. Thankfully, the judge didn't have any of this Effective Altruist bullshit.

SBF invested 500 millions of misappropriated funds in his buddy from the EA movement's Anthropic company (and, thankfully, the judge forced those shares to be sold: so SBF didn't get to be a billionaire).

You cannot hate enough people who say that harming others for the greater good is justified.

Then of course, already mentioned in this thread, there's the whole Epstein/Amodei's "I'm in the porn business" wife connection (where you don't need to squint much to see young women abused).

These kind of people are the absolute worst scum on this earth.

How have they had a negative impact? How about google?