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New comment by forest32 in "The ways we contain Claude across products"

forest32 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:19:29 +0000

> They simply created a scenario with some facts and asked their model to continue the story.

Yes. That's the whole point. They are doing research. Anthropic literally starts their description of the blackmail test observations saying that it is a test scenario using a fictional company.

> In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-4-system-card

New comment by forest32 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

forest32 — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:55:51 +0000

> if in the future open weight models will be very near the quality of frontier labs, Anthropic and OpenAI will be out of business very soon

> Why would a business pay for Slack when IRC exists?

> Why would a business pay for Dropbox when FTP exists?

New comment by forest32 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

forest32 — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:38:07 +0000

It's a rumor being spread by OpenAI employees.

https://x.com/_aidan_clark_/status/2052089187659346047

New comment by forest32 in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

forest32 — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:34:17 +0000

This seems to be a rumor being coordinated by OpenAI.

There's OpenAI employees spreading this rumor on Twitter with 0 evidence. Their entire evidence is "I keep hearing Anthropic wants to control AI". Their evidence is literal rumors.

https://x.com/_aidan_clark_/status/2052089187659346047