I think that this is the scariest part of the upcoming AI era.
Every time you want to do something, you essentially have to ask permission from a corporation (and, possibly, from a government that regulates it) to do it.
I was thinking about Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto.
Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin (I know that large part of HN crowd is very critical of it), my point is that people were able to create software that has big social impact without asking permission from anyone and without revealing their identity.
Back in the days you could be just some guy sitting in your room, possibly in a backwaters 3rd world country, with a laptop that costs just a couple of hundred dollars and you (potentially) could be just as impactful as a well funded corporate coder. It all depended on your skills and ingenuity.
Now, we are coming to an era when you:
1. Have to have resources to buy tokens or buy/rent inference hardware
2. Have to reveal your identity, your intentions and ask for a permission. Everything you do is potentially logged and analyzed
Of course, theoretically you can do everything "the old school way", but if AI makes a programmer 100x - 1000x more productive, you will always be behind and never catch up.
Sabinus [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The article could have benefited from a mention of why Anthropic is like this now.
The reason this happened to you is Anthropic's systems presumably think your work looks like (Chinese) distillation and subscription-to-token-reseller-api practices.
gruez [3 hidden]5 mins ago
>Not a warning. Not a rate limit. A revocation.
Clearly OP has some sock puppet claude accounts that weren't banned
kixpanganiban [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I still have Grok around to correct my grammar
rethab [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It’s not just correcting grammar. Not just a few words. Almost every paragraph starts in the same style.
To be clear, I don’t want to be negative. Don’t want to just troll —- I’m just noticing how all of it is generated. It’s difficult to unsee once you know.
mplanchard [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Oh whoops I ceded my livelihood to an opaque corporate subscription service and they banned me
testingonetwo34 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
So you have no idea why they banned you? None at all?
kixpanganiban [3 hidden]5 mins ago
No idea. My initial guess was because I was running long-running Fable 5 tasks related to healthcare, and I think that's within a specific classification of usage, but then why wouldn't they have suspended me earlier -- it doesn't make sense
fwipsy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
In competitive online games, anticheat bans come in waves to make them more difficult to reverse-engineer. Clearly Anthropic is being deliberately opaque here. I wonder if you tripped some anti-distillation measures?
ungreased0675 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
What kind of work were you doing?
kixpanganiban [3 hidden]5 mins ago
A lot of GEPA-inspired prompt tuning with content healthcare related, which I assumed may have been what raised some flags on their end -- but I've been going at this for a long time so I don't get why they suspended _now_
l-mdev [3 hidden]5 mins ago
You're absolutely right. Same product family. Same sudden wall.
zaphirplane [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is load bearing
jorl17 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
What got me was "I keep seeing the same shape next to billing events in other people's reports".
Clicked off after that.
I'm extremely bullish on AI, but I am tired of people not using their own words. Is everyone so insecure about the personality they project in writing that they need to replace it with some AI bullshit?
(To the author: if you didn't do this, which I accept is a possibility, I'm sorry -- you've been caught by the storm of fatigue that has plagued us due to those who do replace their words with AI crap)
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Every time you want to do something, you essentially have to ask permission from a corporation (and, possibly, from a government that regulates it) to do it.
I was thinking about Bitcoin and Satoshi Nakamoto.
Regardless of what you think about Bitcoin (I know that large part of HN crowd is very critical of it), my point is that people were able to create software that has big social impact without asking permission from anyone and without revealing their identity.
Back in the days you could be just some guy sitting in your room, possibly in a backwaters 3rd world country, with a laptop that costs just a couple of hundred dollars and you (potentially) could be just as impactful as a well funded corporate coder. It all depended on your skills and ingenuity.
Now, we are coming to an era when you:
1. Have to have resources to buy tokens or buy/rent inference hardware
2. Have to reveal your identity, your intentions and ask for a permission. Everything you do is potentially logged and analyzed
Of course, theoretically you can do everything "the old school way", but if AI makes a programmer 100x - 1000x more productive, you will always be behind and never catch up.
Clearly OP has some sock puppet claude accounts that weren't banned
To be clear, I don’t want to be negative. Don’t want to just troll —- I’m just noticing how all of it is generated. It’s difficult to unsee once you know.
Clicked off after that.
I'm extremely bullish on AI, but I am tired of people not using their own words. Is everyone so insecure about the personality they project in writing that they need to replace it with some AI bullshit?
(To the author: if you didn't do this, which I accept is a possibility, I'm sorry -- you've been caught by the storm of fatigue that has plagued us due to those who do replace their words with AI crap)