I don't think Anthropic is a saint that will never do anything unethical. I don't think ChatGPT is any better or worse.

But I do think my cancelling ChatGPT so I can try Claude, at this time, sends the message I want to send, which is why I did it.

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Buttons840 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's also good to demonstrate to these companies that we're willing to move. If these companies know their entire userbase will just pack up and move at the first controversy, there wont be any controversies.

	▲	michaelteter 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Consumer actions are meaningless here. If Altman can become Trump’s new best friend (can’t wait to watch the Altman/Musk drama), there will be so much public money directed toward OpenAI that they can stop wasting their time on the puny people.

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kace91 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How's claude for non coding tasks? For example using it as a google substitute for trivial questions, like a recipe or a phone review.

Genuinely asking, because I might follow your steps.

	▲	prodigycorp 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Claude cannot search Reddit so it is dreadful for search cases.
	▲	tstrimple 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It's been very good for me. I don't even open claude.ai or or use Kagi Assistant even though I'm paying for it and have access to basically all the models. I interact pretty much exclusively via Claude Code. My recipe question turned into a recipe tracking project and recommendation engine designed to help force me to try making new things that expand my skills. I've also had good luck getting gluten / dairy alternatives for recipes since that's now a fact of life I have to deal with via my wife. For product reviews, you've definitely got to make sure it's searching for sources and not just relying on outdated data. Some brands used to be very good and are today just coasting on their reputation. This is where phrases like "research this deeply" help it break out of the baked in biases.

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Trasmatta 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And a nice bonus is that Claude is way better than ChatGPT right now anyway

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tombert 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I just changed last night and honestly I can't tell much of a difference.

I'm not really complaining, it seems fine, but I'm not seeing the "way better" part that people keep saying.

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solenoid0937 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It's not sycophantic and has a much better "voice."

	▲	layer8 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not that I’m a friend of OpenAI, but ChatGPT has relatively fine-grained “personalization” options, and it was never sycophantic with the “efficient” tone for me. Rather the opposite, sometimes it seemed slightly indignant when I criticized it.
	▲	mvdtnz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It definitely is sycophantic, but uses A LOT less emoji, lists and header-paragraph-header structure.

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jimmydoe 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How so, it’s unstable like floating ice.

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Imustaskforhelp 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I don't think Anthropic is a saint that will never do anything unethical. I don't think ChatGPT is any better or worse.

I sort of agree and think that over a long horizon, Open weights models are going to be the best / are the best

I do think only a fraction of companies might do what Anthropic did here. There must have been quite a significant pressure on them to fold but they didn't. So to me, I'd rather try to do atleast something to show companies that people do care about such things and its best if we have at the very least some unconditional morals which are not for sale no matter the price.

I think that we can still have disagreements with Anthropic on matters and I certainly still have some disagreements about their thoughts on Open Models for example but in all regards I would trust them as more trustworthy than OpenAI imho.

That being said, I do think that its worth telling that given that I don't have good GPU, I am gonna stop using Chatgpt as well and will use either Claude/(Kimi?) as well like many people are doing too. I do think that it might be the path going forward.

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Allower 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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