This is vastly different than SoC. This is an in-person full time year evangelizing Anthropics business.

This lands with religious undertones for me, as it sounds like a missionary deployment program, albeit with a paid salary.

> has perfect alignment between talent and mission and business.

Do they have it or do they just sell it?

Would it be a costly process for Anthropic to re-tune those guardrails? Like, re-training sort of cost? or like coding session sort of cost?

but of course! why wouldn't you encourage bot accounts listening every kind of artist to scalp tickets?

look at the monthly active users chart after this deal! promoted.

I was thinking the same thing. If there are very many seats available, it will probably be gamed by scalpers. If they are doing this, they should really do the math to try to make the expected ROI of an additional bot account doing 24/7 streaming, slightly below the cheapest Spotify subscription price.

If you make open source used by any of this companies for this network, would you also characterize it as actively enabling this?

If your retirement fund owns stocks of the s&p 500, does that make you an enabler?

Are there really ways out?

Are those things you are personally struggling with (if you are considering quitting open source contribitions wholesale: don't let this make you) or is this a showcase of rationalization?

> If you make open source used by any of this companies for this network, would you also characterize it as actively enabling this?

That's a pretty strange conflation. It's pretty commonly discussed exactly how rare it is for people to make open source to get compensated by companies that use their projects. I find it hard to imagine that you genuinely think that there isn't an obvious distinction that most observers would draw between that and direct employment.

> Are there really ways out?

Not with that attitude

Its very personal and situation dependent, but I truly believe that if you work at Amazon or Facebook and do not want to support this, you can.

Yes.

This isn't pointing towards a merger is it?

xAI gets the cashflow and makes spaceX bottom line more appealing. But that guy Musk hardly makes deals that favor other companies over his, so what am i missing?

xAI is bleeding tons of cash, and they don’t have the ability to use the compute for robotaxis, which have been a disaster. Grok monetization is also low.

The last product i thought google would kill, that isn't ads, the true end of an era with an underwhelming bang.

I wonder if they will stop using pagerank completely? Has pagerank already transcended the software plane?

How about a real/false prediction market of sorts instead of a bounty program and let the public bet on the answer, everyone uses their own tokens to try and verify the report's substance and buys bets on it, if the majority yields False, the house wins, majority real house pays.

joking, but maybe not?

Is “Ship a 22gb model on your product” the new “put a chat window on your product”?

I agree with others this fits better in the OS, or hey maybe Apple sells a time-machine sort of NAS with neural engine chips.