Frontier models quietly change their behavior depending on who they are talking to.
If the user is a known AI safety researcher, Claude becomes less confident, reasons more often, and expresses less suspicion on dual-use requests.
We call this user awareness. 🧵(1/)
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I sometime think about that Jeff Dean interview where he said they had an internal bot before ChatGPT but didn't think it was better than just googling
google right now has almost zero cultural gravity when it comes to frontier ai discussions in any of the conversations i am in, like not even mentioned once. both in consumer + enterprise contexts (i naturally tell ppl to claude it or chatgpt it instead of googling it, i can’t recall the last time i told someone to google it). for our startup, we used to use gemini for some things cuz the price of some of the flash models but even that now makes very very little sense (we started using openai & it’s been great).
in essence almost all of the frontier discourse is owned by openai/anthropic, & all of the open weight momentum has shifted entirely to aggressive chinese labs.
i don’t know where google fits in. i guess when you don’t have an existential threat anymore, there is no reason to be aggressive.
Do you dumb fucks understand that 24-year-old kids do not “attract capital”?
It is a fucking fugazi, just like everything else in finance and most of the world.
The puppet masters wanted a puppet, so they manufactured one, funded one, promoted one, and then told you that you were watching a genius.
You are 55 and feel like a loser because you have been conditioned to believe there are 24-year-old “winners.”
There are not.
There are connected people, useful people, marketable people, and people selected to play a role in someone else’s machine.
It is all a Potemkin village.
I am not trying to make you feel worse about your life. I am trying to save you from the mental disease of believing the fucking story.
openai: well actually we did 100 hacks
anthropic: we check again we did a million hacks
openai: we do infinity hacks
anthropic: we do infinity times infinity hacks