This announcement completes the betrayal of their founding principles.
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."
- Not advancing digital intelligence
- While locking people into a superapp
- Because they are further constrained to generating financial returns
It seems human. It taught me 合影, which seems to be Chinese slang for just wanting to be in the comments. Probably not a coincidence that it's after work time in China.
Really interesting to see Github turn into 4chan for a minute, like GH anons rolling for trips.
lol that's funny, I have been working seriously [1] on a feature like this after first writing about it jokingly [2] earlier this year.
The joke was the assistant is a cat who is constantly sabotaging you, and you have to take care of it like a gacha pet.
The seriousness though is that actually, disembodied intelligences are weird, so giving them a face and a body and emotions is a natural thing, and we already see that with various AI mascots and characters coming into existence.
You know, that would actually be pretty fun and cool. Like if you had home automation set up with a "pet assistant", but it would only follow your commands if you made sure to keep it happy.
If it could somehow only work if I maintain the kitchen sink and counter, then maybe I'd be motivated to keep the house clean. The gacha game trains you.
Would be interesting to run this through Malus [1] or literally just Claude Code and get open source Claude Code out of it.
I jest, but in a world where these models have been trained on gigatons of open source I don't even see the moral problem. IANAL, don't actually do this.
First time I hear about this, it's interesting to have written all of this out.
Now this makes me think of game decompilation projects, which would seem to fall in the same legal area as code that would be generated by something like Malus.
Different code, same end result (binary or api).
We definitely need to know what the legal limits are and should be
Apparently it's possible to download a whole load of books illegally, but still train AI models on them without those getting pulled after you get found out.
The problem is the oauth and their stance on bypassing that. You'd want to use your subscription, and they probably can detect that and ban users. They hold all the power there.
I have no interest in Claude Code as a harness, only their models. I'm used to OpenCode at this point and don't want to switch to a proprietary harness.
Lol what? There is no value. OpenCode and Pi and more exist. Arguably Claude Code is the worst client on the market. People use Claude Code not because it's some amazing software. It's to access Opus at a discounted rate.
I don’t think that’s a good comparison. There isn’t anything preventing Anthropic from, say, detecting whether the user is using the exact same system prompt and tool definition as Claude Code and call it a day. Will make developing other apps nearly impossible.
It’s a dynamic, subscription based service, not a static asset like a video.
It is a real product. They take real payments and deliver on whats promised.
Not sure if its an attempt to subvert criticism by using satirical language, or if they truly have so little respect for the open source community.
"Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return."
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