The fact that they're calling it an "attack" implies otherwise.

I find the entire premise of this announcement absurd. Fraudulent accounts? They're just accounts. They paid for the access the same as any other. They're accessing Claude just like a human (or *claw) would.

There's no argument against their strategy that doesn't make them complete hypocrites in respect to how they got the model training data in the first place.

> them complete hypocrites in respect to how they got the model training data in the first place.

sure, hypocrisies is part of rules for big games: politics and business.

> Fraudulent accounts? They're just accounts.

they tell the story in blog post, that they don't allow claude in China, but those labs use some proxy services to access claude and mix traffic with regular users to hids its activities

I don’t think so. It reads much more like “distillation is okay when you do it to your own models.”

> C++ is a dying language compared to Rust.

there is a good chance Rust will start dying and will actually die by being replaced by some new hyper-overengineered lang much faster than C++ actually die.

> Wouldn't it be better to decide on a memory-safe language,

it is totally possible to use some strict subset of C++, which will be memory safe.

Ladybird already does that

> Are you going to choose to buy your protein bar online from mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings, or just pick it up as part of your local grocery trip?

1. I buy in bulk.

2. I check amazon vs walmart usually.

Yep.

ChatAI - show the top 50 online retailers by revenue in the US and note any that have credible new stories about quality control issues. Save all of them except StoreX and StoreY in your list you use for comparison shopping.

Or maybe another one, scan all my credit card purchases for all time that you have history and record all the stores.

Done. And plenty of third party sites (consumer reports, wirecutter, etc...) will do this kind of thing too. And you could perhaps transitively trust them - either view direct lists or just scraping the places they recommend.

And the average person doesn't need to figure this out ... skills encoding this will propagate.

This is fine as long as the supply chain is, in fact, diversified.

sure, looks like more analysis is needed to check which verticals are diversified and which are not, instead of throwing blanket list of everything.

Agree, worth analysing what is genuinely commodity.

There are more elements to it though which can be sort of hard to explain.

There are whole cultures and ways of thinking built around production. The children of engineers who worked on xyz v1.0 have a genuine advantage when its time to work on xyz v2.0. There is a lot of tacit knowledge in these engineering fields and you have a huge advantage in knowledge retention if you can maintain unbroken chains of succession.

You can't achieve the top levels of ability (decades of experience, generational knowledge) if you are whip-sawing production to and fro across the globe every 10 years.

There are also cross pollination effects. Being in the same community with as many related fields as possible (co-located) is what drives cross-pollination and mobility of ideas and people between industries.

Think how many countries have tried to copy "silicon valley" and failed, and _why_ they failed.

What I'm saying is that technology is built by _people_ and there are human reasons why having local capacity is beneficial for all the related industries in the area.

> The children of engineers who worked on xyz v1.0 have a genuine advantage when its time to work on xyz v2.0.

my point is that other children with no extremely heavy investments into perl v1.0, will have some skills in c++ v1.0 and python v1.0, and will have advantage in adapting Tensorflow v1.0, which is more valuable than skills in perl v2.0. Heavily investing in one industry you sacrifice some flexibility.

So, this is multifactor analysis, lets say wise American people will elect me as next president, I would create list of industries, assign metrics (national security importance, potential revenue in 5y from now, impact on other industries, potential margin, risks of failure, etc), then build some formula which aggregate those metrics into single, and base on final metric allocate weighted funds to support N top industries.

sure, it is solved just by one with good packages coverage.

Maybe it is not a big deal? Chicken goes through withdrawal period and level of residue is tested in end product, supposedly..

If you pump livestock (chicken, cows or pigs) full of antibiotics, surely they are going to piss/crap a lot of it into the environment, hastening antibiotic resistance.

but it will be localized farm environment only..

Its just question of risk/benefit ratio, benefit is clear: cheap meat, because producers will be less impacted by deceases. Risks are not so clear in this case.

It doesn't stay localized; runoff from farmland is a major issue. In other words, the farm animal poops out a bunch of antiobiotics, then it rains and that poop ends up washing into the river/lake/water table. That's already something that happens with situations like E. coli contamination. Things that happen on the farm don't stay on the farm.

Ok, still focus could be not on avoiding antibiotics completely, but preventing runoff, or finding types which decay faster in environment.

Do we know even if we can build sustainable large scale industry without antibiotics?

protobufs?

When serialized as JSON perhaps. Being able to inspect payloads in the browser is too convenient.

> and now everyone hates Java

speak for yourself :-)

But sadly Java can't rule them all because there is no browser story and no IOS story.

hopefully op will answer if that's what he is doing