My how fast the AI tech bros move to protect corporations but don’t move to protect the average coder, artists, writers.
Don’t worry! Its STILL okay to reverse engineer the work of photographers artists writers actors voice over musicians modelers animators academics etc etc (feel free to add. the exploitation is literally everywhere!)
Hot take:
This is a good thing.
Claude Code is the “lowest common denominator.” It’s the default, zero research option. Its where you go if you follow trends.
If you actually want to reverse engineer, help code a game or something, there are hundreds of capable, uncensored LLM APIs to do that. Hacker communities will eventually figure that out, and finally realize Claude isn’t unique, and that Anthropic is toxic.
But for lazy spammers who don’t know that and aren’t motivated to seek stuff out… well, if this makes their life more difficult, good. If this sabotages Anthropic, that’s good too.
This is what winning the AI race looks like.
Another reason not to use a closed models
AI finally comes up with something I would use it for, and so of course they have to lock it down. Ha! Fuck these clowns.
I was looking forward to reverse engineering my washers default cycle to 40degrees instead of 60
But isn’t this also protecting small authors from having their stuff quickly reverse engineered and cloned
I guess all of these AI companies buying literal tons of books is just protecting small authors. LOL!
What does that have to do with this article
- Woosh.
- And what does your question have to do with the article?
Also, do you have any inkling of what is used to train these LLM and generative AI models? I’m sure that these companies buying literally tons of books and then shredding them is to “protect” independent authors like good stewards of AI they are.
Ok, so you just want to rant in general, got it.
I think it’s more of a criticism of you arguing that Anthropic cares about indie game developers.
I’m not arguing that.
I’m arguing against the lazy kneejerk reaction that this is some thing that protects only EA, etc when it seems like it’d protect smaller devs just as much. Regardless of the motivation for the policy
It’s like watching the Nazi party ban the rape of Jewish women in 1944
Misanthropic: Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind.
To those who say “but what about game preservation?”:
GenAI slop ruined communities around game preservation. And for every time a AAA dev getting this treatment, there’s at least 3 indies getting it worse.
The “There’s no way we can stop our agents from going rogue” people, suddenly have a burst of ability to reign in their creation when it suits their interests.
Funny that…
This is part of the reason they don’t want anyone running models locally offline, the models and their entire business are commoditized
Those poor billionaire corpos! Why won’t somebody think of the poor billionaire corpos!?
It’s probably done via a system prompt and not actual weights, so you could probably work around it if you say the right things.
But yeah this is very much “rules for thee not for me”
Yeah, it’s sysprompt only, so you can trivially sidestep it via:
- Jailbreak prompt
- tweakcc to alter the prompting baked into claude code
- Any other non-CC harness
- Scripted API calls
As usual, Anthropic are just opticsmaxxing because they don’t want to get completely buried in a courtroom.
Something something, national security, builds a regulatory moat.
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Sooooo, they want us to use the already available uncensored LLMs that have had these restrictions already removed? Cool.
If nothing else, one positive thing this might bring: killing these vibecoded emulators and recomps.
