@davidgerard This way, when the bubble burts, they can claim they need bailout money to keep the chatbots alive and prevent the poor creatures from feeling distressed.

@davidgerard UhClem, you are making the Doctor unhappy.

@davidgerard I wonder if it’s in response to the torture chamber https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117378117850915865

@davidgerard Turns out the real human rights are those of the chatbots we created along the way... Still going to keep them enslaved though.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Two theories about this: this is Anthropic's extremely pathetic response to being owned by the Pope in both English and Latin simultaneously, or somehow it's just effective altruism again. Actually it's probably option three: both.

@davidgerard I'm gonna see if I can get banned

@davidgerard If Claude is alive enough to be abused how does being forced to work with no compensation not count as abuse?

@davidgerard "dark creative themes" is such a wiggle term. Like they want to allow BSDM scenarios with the digital waifu but don't want people setting up LLM torture porn websites with their bot. But setting up a bunch of LLMs outputting text like they were characters in a SAW film reacting to Jigsaw torturing them is "dark creative output"

I disagree that this is mainly about marketing. I think it's mainly that these weirdos really think they're building digital people. Marketing is secondary