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I can't remember the last time (if ever) a company managed to go from golden goose to.. whatever this is.. so quickly. The permanent defensiveness in his presen
by badatnames 2mo ago
I can't remember the last time (if ever) a company managed to go from golden goose to.. whatever this is.. so quickly. The permanent defensiveness in his presentation is really hard to swallow, it actively puts me off wanting to believe in or rely on their product line with Dario at the helm. I don't even understand the logic leading up to this post. Who was it even hoping to convince. Is it possible Anthropic is due an oil change?
- timpera 2mo agoAnthropic has been surprisingly bad at comms for the last few months, which I find crazy in such a competitive market.
- reducesuffering 2mo agoCurrent big picture reality is bad for comms unfortunately. As another commenter quoted, "You can put lipstick on a pig, it'll still be a pig". Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't very calm. Do you think a company this well-capitalized and smart is just bumbling around like idiots? Everything makes sense if one just actually entertains the idea that they are earnest and we are in a dangerous arms race
- bigyabai 2mo ago> Everything makes sense if one just actually entertains the idea that they are earnest and we are in a dangerous arms race That would require me to ignore the benign reality of open LLM proliferation, so naturally most people will see this as a manipulative lie.
- pibaker 2mo agoI feel everyone running these companies has stopped caring what the public think. It's all about selling their vision to politicians now. Which is also why they try to tie everything with "national security" — the average joe hears it and thinks about forever wars in the Middle East, the average congressman hears it and approves whatever solution is suggested.
- infamouscow 2mo agoYes, but the strategy is a lost cause as we're seeing. In virtually any other situation, companies would be able to successfully grease politicians. The problem for AI companies is they spent the last several years broadcasting that their tech is going to take everyone job, and consequently their livelihood. No matter how much you bribe a politician, you can't hold and maintain elected office when the voters overwhelmingly do not want something.
- pastel8739 2mo agoI find “bad at comms” to be such a cop out. As if it’s saying that the company is so troubled and misunderstood, but really, you would see, is good if only they could figure out how to _communicate_ all their complex thoughts
- jamilton 2mo agoI think it's a useful distinction, there are lots of companies doing bad things that also happen to have "better comms".
- claw-el 2mo agoPeople think ‘good at comms’ is to present stuff the public thinks is right. In reality, ‘good at comms’ to the comms team is to do whatever the CEO wants to talk about. Not that I support this, but I believe this is how comms team sees it.
- throwaway27448 2mo agoCompared to what?
- xquce 2mo agoI often wonder why that is. I think the old playbook for companies is just too slow and the consequences of the "new mask off" are not present in the current climate in the US. Everytime these CEOs make these announcements I always feel like they aren't talking to me, their costumers or the people but to the investors and their government. Something they have always said and done, just those conversions were behind closed doors and would be scandalous if heard. Now the playbook is to blog/tweet those fucked up views for more effect and faster reaction to get what you want.
- throw1234567891 2mo agoAmodei is crawling back into Trump's ass.
- trvz 2mo agoIt would've been surprising before LLMs. Now that you could run all of your communication through AI, or at least have it check it, it's outright negligent.
- tolugenius 2mo agoI think they are trying to please a split group of investors and public, of their major investors Google and Nvidia have signed the open source petition letter and Amazon hasn't, so their non position is trying to please every who has taken a clearer stance, although it's quite bad.
- Aperocky 2mo agoAmazon did sign it though...
- tolugenius 2mo agoDo you have a source for that? Everything I've read and can find still shows they haven't signed it.
- Aperocky 2mo agowww.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/topics/open-weight/ Amazon is listed as signatory, I doubt microsoft just decided for them.
- tolugenius 2mo agoThanks for that, I guess they might release a statement of sorts later? Quite a quiet signing on their part.
- paxys 2mo agoAnthropic has always been like this. People just responded to the message better when it came from the quirky underdog rather than the trillion dollar behemoth.
- throw1234567891 2mo agoTrillion dollar behemoth, heheh.
- smrtinsert 2mo agoPeople will start canceling their subscriptions. This is outrageous
- anon373839 2mo ago> I can't remember the last time (if ever) a company managed to go from golden goose to.. whatever this is.. It's WeWorse.
- throwaway27448 2mo ago> The permanent defensiveness in his presentation is really hard to swallow, it actively puts me off wanting to believe in or rely on their product line with Dario at the helm. It does give me the faintest glimmer of hope about the people who live here, though.