> I have no idea why HN still treats them like their the ethical good guy.
I don't know that HN usually does. But they did buy a decent amount of publicity by (initially) telling the US government no in using the models for war.
What does that have to do with LLMs hosted by Anthropic. They didn't say the Dept of War couldn't make kill bots. They said no using Claude to make kill decisions. A quadcopter drone running on a Raspberry Pi isn't running an Anthropic model locally.
Fiber optic drones were last year's weapon of choice, this year it is drones with autonomous terminal phase.
This happened because the AI data center build-out increased demand for fiber optics, driving up the price to less affordable levels.
Autonomous terminal phase is also more effective; ~80% mission success compared to ~30% for fiber optic drone.
Fiber optic drones are real but the fully autonomous drones others are describing are also real (but less publicized due to the bad PR around killbots)
Is it still lying if they just lost track of where all the debt is hidden and stopped caring about those little things? They're seriously like 2 months out from achieving AGI and making more money than god.
Anthropic gained momentum in terms of public opinion, when they launched the no ads campaign and then after not supporting the use of AI without supervision in the military.
And now it seems it has been lost after incidents like (people getting incorrect bills) their handling of fable etc
Personally, I never bought the good-guys act. But judging from the HN pulse, it seems to me that the decisive moment when Anthropic lost its halo is when it decided to start silently sabotaging users working on LLM research that might compete with Anthropic. It was so blatantly monopolistic and abusive that it seemed to be mask-off moment for many.
I don't know that HN usually does. But they did buy a decent amount of publicity by (initially) telling the US government no in using the models for war.