"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow

[avaer]

> There are no virtuous participants in the artificial intelligence race

A bit of an insulting way to start the article.

Plenty of researchers and smaller companies would disagree, but they won't get articles written about them because they're not embroiled in DOW killbot drama.

We might not be in this situation if all of this money was given to them instead.

[Terr_]

In a similar vein, a shout out to all my software homies out there who are just trying to fix data entry input field bugs instead of constructing the Torment Nexus.

[JohnTHaller]

The AI race refers to the big companies that through shady tactics are currently in the 'lead'. None of them are virtuous.

[ssl-3]

"DOW" here is an acronym for Department of War, and really should be fully capitalized in the title.

[Svip]

It's also still the Department of Defense; only Congress can change its name, and they haven't.

[marginalia_nu]

Yeah title is currently likely to be interpreted as Dow Jones.

[Retric]

DoW or more accurately DoD like WoW is less ambiguous than fully capitalized.

[thatcat]

wouldn't it be DoW, like DoD?

[siva7]

Says windowscentral.com... People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic nor do they care about this dispute. What normal poeple might have heard is probably more something along the lines of Anthropic and supply-chain-risk and unpatriotic...

[3rodents]

The top post on Reddit is about it, it has escaped the nerdsphere.

[mi_lk]

> People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic

"Claude by Anthropic" is currently #2 Top Free App in US App Store

[firefoxd]

One thing to take into account, this will now be a large source of revenue for them. You thought you would get away with the free tier, but now as a tax payer, we are all funding it.

[cpeterso]

And they can get “too build to fail” bailouts from the US government after they are dependent on ChatGPT.

[jedberg]

It’s DoD. It’s still not officially changed. But if you insist on using the nickname it should be DoW.

[hbarka]

Dario Amodei direct interview today on CBS News:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPTNHrq_4LU

[Jordan-117]

*DoD

Headline makes it sound like Dow Chemical/Jones.

[nialv7]

i don't have an openai subscription, but i still want to participate

[andy_ppp]

I know this is very picky but I find the font choices of Claude quite distracting and difficult to read. I might try Gemini but the Trump admin would probably force Google to sell YouTube to Larry Ellison so they will capitulate. Are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?

[delecti]

It seems like Claude's settings let you pick the system font. Is there a reason to not change your system font to something you don't find distracting? It seems like it would have knock-on benefits by making every application less distracting.

[andy_ppp]

So about the font thing... now the content of chats uses the default font but the UI all uses anthropicSans which is horrible and also causes a clash as two fonts that are extremely similar fall into a weird uncanny valley for me. I wish the setting to choose a font was across the whole UI.

[drewolbrich]

There's a Claude settings option to use the system font instead.

[Imustaskforhelp]

> are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?

Yup, Check out Openrouter providers for your particular chinese frontier model/ open weights model in general and you could find the location of all providers who host that model and where they are hosted (US/EU countries etc.) as well.

You can also change Claude font as others are mentioning.

[ChrisArchitect]

[dupe] Discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47190997

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47193478

[mickle00]

Great to see this going mainstream

[system2]

Only liberals. HN partially, and Reddit in general. Average Joe doesn't hear these things. Here is my proof. I go to a dog park every morning and talk to people, and you might know how close you get at the parks with casuals. I asked around about this subject this morning. Absolutely no one knew about it. And these people are working in relatively techy workplaces. Most people I spoke to this morning said something similar to "yeah, cool, USA should get the most of the tech they can to fight the bad guys".

This is an echo chamber. Nothing more.

[RalfWausE]

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[ryandvm]

Find a smarter dog park

[journal]

I refuse to use anything but OpenAI API.

[hypercube33]

I can't tell if this is satire but if not, you're only holding yourself back. It's far from the leading model family for a while now for almost any workload.

[Simulacra]

This article makes no sense. ChatGPT is a search engine and knowledge base with an anthropomorphic front end. It's Google with human characteristics. I think, IMHO, people take AI way too seriously and see in it a boogeyman to conquer.

[procone]

It is certainly not a "search engine". Perhaps you should do some reading on how LLMs function.