I would not be surprized if Anthropic would actually hire a real developer to make these PRs as a marketing stunt
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Well, if the model detected an issue, and a human tested it to make sure it was real and then fixed it, I think that's an acceptable use of AI tools.
Yeh, AI as an assistant/tool. Not as a replacement
In 2021, when Amazon launched its first “just walk out” grocery store in the UK in Ealing, west London, this newspaper reported on the cutting-edge technologies that Amazon said made it all possible: facial-recognition cameras, sensors on the shelves and, of course, “artificial intelligence”.
An employee who worked on the technology said that actual humans – albeit distant and invisible ones, based in India – reviewed about 70% of sales made in the “cashier-less” shops as of mid-2022
UK AI company builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers.
It's OK to hate AI slop and recognize the immediate threat to cyber security it brings. At least they are trying to mitigate it. There's been no similar actions from other frontier models. They are deliberately helping open source projects with little funding to keep pace.
Anthropic right now are the good people.
That probably won’t last. But out of a bad bunch they’re the least bad.