The economics of this are absurd, and Anthropic hasn't been without their controversy; but I use Claude everyday, and they've made tremendous impact on society. I wish them the best for their IPO.

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bunderbunder a day ago | parent | next [-]

They’ve had a tremendous impact on software development, which is not exactly society.

For society more broadly, what I’ve seen is a bunch of white collar workers under threat (real or perceived) of losing their livelihood, and a huge uptick in the amount of interference I’m having to run as my family members get taken in by a wave of increasingly sophisticated scams and phishing attacks.

	▲	72deluxe a day ago \| parent [-]
		The only impact I see on my family and friends is a proliferation of daft pictures and realistic-looking nonsense. At work I see an increase in people spending (wasting?) time trying to make it work reliably for their inputs.

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okdood64 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> they've made tremendous impact on society

How?

I can see Google did for fostering an environment that lead to the creation of the Transformer and LLMs. I can see OpenAI for pushing on LLM development and making it into a product that the whole world can use.

What did Anthropic introduce that Google or OpenAI (or any other lab) wouldn't have gotten to iteratively eventually?

	▲	human305893 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		he didn't say the impact was good. Could be talking about anything.

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keybored a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They’re cultists who want their golem to control the world. I wish nothing but the worst for them—they have done enough harm already.

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Jtarii a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Social media had a huge impact on society. AI in comparison has had very little impact, with a couple of exceptions. I'm sure it will have a impact at some point in the future though.

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Maken a day ago | parent [-]

Social media is AI right now. Almost all of it.

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Jtarii a day ago | parent [-]

It is still entirely possible to curate your social media timeline to be 95% humans.

	▲	Maken 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Or maybe the chatbots are adapting.

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preisschild a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The only "tremendous impact on society" I have seen is that people generally outsource thinking completely and get dumber.

	▲	Varelion a day ago \| parent [-]
		You are expecting them to reach this conclusion without asking claude? Their critical thinking is gone.

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ramon156 a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> they've made tremendous impact on society

Such as?

I can think of a bunch of stuff they released, but none that have impacted the world. I can think of some partly positive impact, which is that my bar for bullshit has to go up because words are cheap now, and so is ""graphics"".

Some other fun impacts they've made is irreversible environmental damage, beautifully detailed in their IPO. Fossil fuel reliance and and water scarcity in the big '26 is probably the most "fuck you" move you could've done, and zero sustainability plans. at least Cloudflare tries to pretend theyre sustainable (and frankly they do invest in green energy).

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shimman a day ago | parent [-]

Anthropic has enable things like workplace surveillance and the ability to categorize school children as enemy combatants. Both of which are what imperialist nations love.

	▲	keybored a day ago \| parent [-]
		This is a thread about stocks and finance. We are not supposed to discuss what companies do to the real world here.

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lbrito a day ago | parent | prev [-]

They have not made significant impact on society. You're in a bubble.