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Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee (www.404media.co)
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A Discord community for gay gamers is in disarray after one of its moderators and an executive at Anthropic forced the company’s AI chatbot on the Discord, despite protests from members.

Users voted to restrict Anthropic's Claude to its own channel, but Jason Clinton, Anthropic’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and a moderator in the Discord, overrode them. According to members of this Discord community who spoke with 404 Media on the condition of anonymity, the Discord that was once vibrant is now a ghost town. They blame the chatbot and Clinton’s behavior following its launch.

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[–] 47 points 9 months ago (4 children)

At first, I thought the real story was about a shitty mod that's drunk on power. And it certainly is that, too. But holy fuck, he actually believes the fucking AI is alive and experiences emotions.

I would flee any place where that guy is in charge, too.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    So bear with me on this...

    Tesla has their inference chip in the cars, and the AI hardware is going to continue improving.

    A couple interations from now, it's actually going to be pretty powerful, and it has it's own cooling hardware and power supply.

    It actually might make sense in the future to use this distrubuted power and cooling and do distrubuted inference. Pay the owner for time used.

    Maybe it'll work, maybe it won't.

    Now... the insane part is, Elon once referred to it as (paraphrased) well, the car is going to have all this compute, and it's just sitting there doing nothing at home. It's going to get bored, and we don't want that, we need to keep it engaged.

    As it it was actually fucking sentient. Like fuck the right off.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Yet another reason to avoid Tesla. But TBH, if someone were still considering one after the many, many other reasons, then this won't put them over the edge.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I mean, of all the things, talking about it being sentient is pretty low on the list of things to he worried about. I doubt this would have any impact on anyones decision even if Tesla had a perfect reputation. And as long as you get paid for distributed inference and it's optional, there's nothing to be upset with there either.

    But ffs its not sentient. Stop talking like it is.

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