| ▲ | tristanj 20 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
The author put zero rational thought into this. If Anthropic is legally required to release the weights of any publicly accessible model, their logical response will just be to stop offering public models. Anthropic gets most of its revenue from enterprise agreements anyway. Providing public models or providing public access to their models is their secondary business. They can cut it off any time. Public access to their models (at subsidized rates) has caused so much indirect harm and financial cost to them that they're very well justified to stop providing access. Anthropic has already shown they're very comfortable with holding models from the public. Mythos has been around for what, six months, and there's never been a public release. Only the select few blessed by Anthropic have access. Forcing transparency on public models will just accelerate privatizing access to these models. You don't want to live in that world. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | jacobgold 20 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> ...their logical response will just be to stop offering public models. Anthropic gets most of its revenue from enterprise agreements anyway. Enterprises are part of the public in this context, so that's not a loophole which would exist. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | vlovich123 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
While mostly true, don’t discount people looking for work that offers them familiar tools. The cheap public pans are a way to train a labor force + create upward demand from people trained on those tools to influence big corporate purchase agreements. Remove that and your lucrative corporate business today starts to struggle in ~5 years, especially given how largely fungible the models and harnesses are. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bugufu8f83 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
>The author put zero rational thought into this. If Anthropic is legally required to release the weights of any publicly accessible model, their logical response will just be to stop offering public models. I mean... that's the entire point of their argument, yes. >Anthropic gets most of its revenue from enterprise agreements anyway. Providing public models or providing public access to their models is their secondary business. Enterprise agreements are public access. | |||||||||||||||||
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