Anthropic is different because they're committed to safety.

[0x0@hachyderm.io]

@mttaggart
So anthropic's don't "don't be evil" moment? I'm shocked.

[slyborg@vmst.io]

@Wyatt_H_Knott @mttaggart We have though? Look at the annual profit for Alphabet some time. “Greed is good”, etc.

[wyatt_h_knott@vermont.masto.host]

@slyborg @mttaggart They're not getting it from me.

[xgranade@wandering.shop]

@mttaggart The part of that that upsets me the most is their justification. I get it was always a lie and they were always going to do whatever the fuck (they were already working with Palantir before dropping that pledge), but they seem to think that the inevitability argument holds water with folks. They're probably even right about that, which makes it extra upsetting...

[glyph@mastodon.social]

@mttaggart you're right, putting the crash-out in the afternoon *is* a productivity enhancer

[mttaggart@infosec.exchange]

@glyph Ayyyy

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@mttaggart

all tech seems to go with the google evolution:

- do no evil
- try really hard not to do evil
- try to avoid being caught doing evil
- fuck it. full evil it is

[jwdt@mastodon.social]

@rachel @mttaggart I think this bugs me in the same way as politicians having stopped pretending to not be cartoonishly evil.

Obviously it's terrible that <entity> is doing bad things, but it felt nicer to live in a world where they felt that they had to lie about it by claiming they weren't doing the bad thing.

[rachel@transitory.social]

@jwdt@mastodon.social @mttaggart@infosec.exchange Yeah...

In the past, I had joked that Google's "Don't Be Evil" was a warrant canary, but even that is an idealistic idea, implying that there was a large org like that which ever really was "one of the good ones"

[jwdt@mastodon.social]

@rachel @mttaggart I don't even know how you could parody something like this.

"Corporation removes (don't be evil | we value safety) from their website"... I'd expect that to end with "after their CEO mysteriously vanished and was replaced by Dr Evil".