Friedberg argues Anthropic's restrictions on genomics and frontier research are forcing enterprise customers like his own company to abandon the platform for open-source (including Chinese) models, representing a real loss of paying customers and market position.
Over the last couple of weeks, they've begun to restrict the ability to use the models to do that work... we are likely going to end up needing to use open-source models and run them locally ourselves.” ⚑
Sacks argues Anthropic is engaged in a sophisticated regulatory capture campaign built on fearmongering, is actively misleading paying users by secretly nerfing models and retaining all prompt data, and is pursuing an anti-competitive agenda to ban open-source rivals — making it untrustworthy and ultimately harmful to its own ecosystem.
8 months ago I said that Anthropic was engaged in a very sophisticated regulatory capture campaign based on fearmongering... they would degrade the product... still charge you for the product that you thought you were getting, and they” ⚑
Chamath argues Anthropic's prompt surveillance, censorship risk, and lack of KYC make it a non-starter for enterprises, driving corporate customers toward open-source alternatives and undermining Anthropic's business model.
if you're a company, I think it's almost a non-starter. And the reason is because you could accidentally trip one of these things without even knowing it... Both are not good.” ⚑