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?

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anon373839 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> I can't remember the last time (if ever) a company managed to go from golden goose to.. whatever this is..

It's WeWorse.

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timpera 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Anthropic has been surprisingly bad at comms for the last few months, which I find crazy in such a competitive market.

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pibaker 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I 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.

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pastel8739 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I 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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think it's a useful distinction, there are lots of companies doing bad things that also happen to have "better comms".

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claw-el 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People 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.

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throwaway27448 26 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Compared to what?

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reducesuffering 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Current 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 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> 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.

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throwaway27448 27 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> 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.

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

I 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.

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

Anthropic 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.

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smrtinsert an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

People will start canceling their subscriptions. This is outrageous