My own experience is opus being lousy at an extremely niche math task, but it was still easier for me to describe what it needed to do to get code and correct issues in its reasoning/working than to write myself. a minor model number change later and it's nailing everything, despite my opt-out. Its is astronomically unlikley others were working on this also, especially at that level, especially this application.

so, safe to say they _all_ train models on chats, the only difference being if you "opt out" you at least have some defence later when they steal your work and claim it as their models original output.

if you look at the damage being done in the name of making this work for nlp, a forseeable situation, then you might also understand why most who could have done this sooner, never did so for fear of repeating mistakes we should be learning from, which we get for free if we just heed history.

Trust is a fundamental thing, and i cannot fathom how a post-trust society could possibly host life as we know it. Life ad we know it comes from systemic efficiencies that are rooted in trust, requiring it deeply. no trust means extreme loss in system efficiency, in a system already creaking under the straign of supporting current populations.

post trust is in my reakoning a serious issue to engage with.

How is it a environmental catastrophe level, datacentre requiring, bullshit model is so much worse than something that runs on my workstation and doesn't cost us a ha itable planet?

Either they're fucking with us serving 8b models at scale or china really has the AI race in the bag so much so that they can openly release what the USA jealously guards.

They moan and complain about china copying from them (while doing the same), but if that's the case in full, then why are the chinese models better? you dont copy bad work and come out ahead.

it's no secret that nvidia, under jesen's leadership, is in dire straits financially. This claim that agi has been reached is an attempt to leave others holding the bag, but when things crash as they must given the current bubble, it seems irresponsible to offload that on the poor souls whonhave had their retirement funds locked up in this debacle.

ai is useful for sure, but claiming agi has been reached is dangerously misleading.