Absolutely wild that it's been linked to a french government fund. I mean it's hard to believe the potential political fallout could be worth what they would get out of it, so one presumes the top doesn't know what the bottom is doing.
Most soverign wealth funds are managed very arms length from the government. Those that aren't tend to go bankrupt because the opportunity for corruption is too great.
I don't think so, I think it's a genuinely interesting piece of information and loss of a yacht. Most smaller (e.g. 36ft) yachts are very hard to sink, often with human error being the most likely problem (i.e the vessel itself is safe and seaworthy). Bigger yachts with commercial crews have to reach an even higher bar.
This becomes interesting from a number of facets. Engineering failure, human error, weather.
Yeah I managed to get it to admit that it was Claude without much effort (telling it not to lie), and then it magically stopped doing that. FWIW Constitutional AI is great.
They implemented the censoring of "Claude" and "Anthropic" using the system prompt?
Shouldn't they have used simple text replacement? they can buffer the streaming response on the server and then .replace(/claude/gi, "Llama").replace(/anthropic/gi, "Meta") on the streaming response while streaming it to the client.
Edit: I realized this can be defeated, even when combined with the system prompt censoring approach.
For example when given a prompt like this: tell me a story about a man named Claude...
It would respond with: once upon a time there was a man called Llama...
> Shouldn't they have used simple text replacement?
They tried that too but had issues.
1) Their search and replace only did it on the first chunk of the returned response from Claude.
2) People started asking questions that had Claude as the answer like "Who composed Clair de lune?" for which the answer is supposed to be "Claude Debussy" which of course got changed to Llama Debussy, etc.
It's been one coverup-fail after another with Matt Shumer and his Reflection scam.
I'm a big Obsidian user and (small) plugin author, but I'd move to something Obsidian like that was open source because there is a chance of enshittification, looking at this though I can't find any reference to any capability for adding plugins.
They can compare themselves to Obsidian however you like in the features table, but the strength of Obsidian is not in the vanilla experience but in the plugins.
Nothing can really help/console in this moment. But so many of us are thinking about him. I appreciated his blog, his strength. It will go on and make a difference.
If you ever need anything my contact details are on my profile and I would be more than happy to help in any way that I can. Technically, financially (I'm sure you have much closer resources, but the offer is there regardless).
