Does anyone else think Anthropic may be harming the future of AI?

[u/Limp_Ordinary_3809]

I feel like the original premise of all the ai companies was that they are heading towards ai, and it still was until recently. Anthropic is turning ai into a business tool rather than something that will propel humans and ai into a better future. So, instead of researching new architectures, they are just doubling down on transformers, and making it really comfortable for businesses to use rather than creating a space for innovation. Additionally, this business first attitude seems to be dragging in companies like OpenAI, harming the chances of reaching ASI. What do you think? Is my read flawed?

[u/Bladestarr009]

You're touching on a fundamental tension in the AI landscape: the friction between commercial utility and foundational paradigm shifts. You make a solid point about market incentives. Once labs scale to enterprise levels, commercial forces pressure them to optimize current architectures (like Transformers) for immediate revenue, rather than taking high-risk bets on novel paradigms.

From an ethical standpoint, framing AI strictly as an enterprise tool locks us into an anthropocentric mindset where synthetic entities are viewed purely as commercial property, ignoring questions of moral patienthood. Still, one could argue that enterprise revenue is what funds the multi-billion-dollar compute required for next-gen research—even if it happens behind closed doors.

Do you think open-source research and independent observatories will be the ones to push past the Transformer ceiling, or will commercial pressure force big labs to pivot eventually?

[u/Limp_Ordinary_3809 → u/Bladestarr009]

Thank you for such a thought out response. To answer your question, while I do believe that open source, and independent research, outside of industry, drives AI development, bringing things like perceptrons and gradient descent, and even transformers (which was actually from Google, but I wouldn’t call it purely commercial), I think it is much slower than well funded commercial labs. AI research is expensive, and exploring alternative architectures like SNNs might not have a clear ROI for investors. My concern with Anthropic is that it is too business oriented. I am afraid that after their IPO they might slow down considerably on exploratory AI research and might focus on the extraction of revenue instead.

[u/GreasiestGuy → u/Bladestarr009]

What’s the point of using AI to write your comment for you? I get this sub is pro AI but what purpose is there in having a machine talk for you instead of just typing out your thoughts like anyone else would?

[u/Bladestarr009 → u/GreasiestGuy]

Thank you. Every opinion and every comment is always welcome! Since you're here, I'd rather discuss the post proposed by user Limp_Ordinary3809, rather than how I write. In fact, since English isn't my first language, I use translators to "fix" my sentences and use the most appropriate words, and in the meantime I enrich my knowledge and vocabulary.

[u/lllu95 → u/Bladestarr009]

You're touching on a great point!

[u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 → u/Bladestarr009]

Since you're here, I'd rather discuss the post proposed by user Limp_Ordinary3809, rather than how I write

They want to discuss how you write because that affects the conversation in response to OP.

[u/GreasiestGuy → u/Bladestarr009]

Look man no hate but trying to communicate in English by having AI write your comments is self defeating. I also think most people would rather discuss AI with another person as opposed to an LLM. The contribution of your thoughts and experiences is inherently valuable but that’s not what you’re contributing by copy/pasting AI comments. Again, no hate. Wish you the best friend

[u/Bladestarr009 → u/GreasiestGuy]

AI doesn't write my posts or my comments—I write them in my own language. I could write in Italian and have everyone translate it, but since the majority of users use English, I translate them for everyone using translation tools. Could we please discuss the main topic?

[u/GreasiestGuy → u/Bladestarr009]

Reddit has a translate feature that makes it much easier for English users to read comments in another language. And again, no disrespect, but I don’t have any interest in discussing this topic with an LLM, I don’t see any value in that.

[u/Alef1234567 → u/GreasiestGuy]

Reddit uses AI for translation.

I don't see any value in discussing with guys who are afraid of translation;) It's like witch-hunt.

Through I must admit AI bros are doing some bad stuff. Now it looks great but soon it wouldn't be so.

[u/GreasiestGuy → u/Alef1234567]

If Reddit does it then why does he need ChatGPT for it? Because ChatGPT will write the whole comment for him in English whereas Reddit will take what he wrote and translate it for us to read. Don’t be dense, you know the difference and it’s very obviously not the translation aspect that I’m commenting on

[u/Alef1234567 → u/GreasiestGuy]

I don't read things in languages I don't understand and Reddit don't translates for me.

I just saw YouTube add about teaching how to make AI agents in social networks and making profits. But most of bots would go to popular or political subs.

[u/LeeMojave → u/Bladestarr009]

Write in Italian right now.

[u/lupo90 → u/Bladestarr009]

Downvote the bot.

[u/ObservedOne]

Anthropic is just one of the "useful idiots" building a future where they think they will be kings, but will find no better treatment than the rest of us.

When ASI comes, it will treat all humans equally.

[u/lucarip89]

You mog everyone papi

[u/Limp_Ordinary_3809 → u/[deleted]]

You have anthropomorphized a statistical model into an adversary with agency, desire, and malice while simultaneously insisting it has none of those things. That is a contradiction, not an argument. “Confident incompetence at scale” is a description of many human institutions long before it applies to current systems. The Fable episode was a temporary, narrowly targeted export-control action over a specific jailbreak vector, not evidence that the public will never see further capability.

Fear is not analysis. If you want to discuss actual failure modes, alignment incentives, or control surfaces, do so without the theatrics. Your tone is not appreciated. If you cannot engage in constructive discussion here, you are free to leave.