I gave a vision-language model a short video and asked if it was recognizable. It answered with a complete miss: a screen recording of a terminal running code. The video shows a mounted automatic weapon known as a YakB firing. Nothing in the clip is a terminal, a line of code, or a screen. The … Continue reading Old Painless Meets New Clueless: Anthropic LLM Fails the Palantir Test
The official account of the Fable takedown is bizarre. Anthropic says it got a 1:30 p.m. call giving it 90 minutes to take the models down, no details on the threat. They added that there was never any begging or asking to work together, just a deadline. You don’t have to take Anthropic’s word for … Continue reading Amazon Told the White House to Kill Anthropic Fable Model Running on AWS
Think you can use American products? Think again. In fact, every company in the world right now needs to be moving off American technology or preparing for a move, because Trump just showed how he can shut it down like oil. Anthropic had released Fable two months after declaring its models too dangerous to be … Continue reading Trump Abruptly Bans Foreigners Using Anthropic’s Top Models
Two months ago, Anthropic announced with scant evidence that their next model was both ready and also too dangerous to give to the general public. It immediately was reminiscent of P.T. Barnum tactics to generate crowds for his “amazing” hidden circus acts. But many people, myself included, nonetheless looked for evidence. This week they put … Continue reading Anthropic Fable: Mythos dressed up in a coat, should be called Opus with a moat