There is also this habit of Boomers selling their properties and renting so they can live more elaborately lives in their final few years. Not much financial value is available to the will. They've left it all to Carnival Cruiselines.
Gen X and Millennials will have to buy from foreign and expat owners just like they already have to now.
It’s not quite at the same level but it reminds me of YouTubers who get products from companies for free for a “review” and then they say “no money exchanged hands”. The incentives are implicit wink-wink and everyone knows it except the audience.
In the case of Cowork I didn't even get preview access, I learned about it at the same moment as everyone else did. There was no incentive from Anthropic to write about it at all (and I expect they may have preferred me not to bang on about prompt injection risks or point out the bugs in their artifacts implementation.)
Honestly, constantly having to fend off accusations of being a shill is pretty tiring.
I think you have it backwards. OpenAI and others have to be more responsible deploying this technology. Because as you said, these things come with tradeoffs.
It could well be that the model was trained to maximize engagement and sycophancy, at the expense of its capabilities in what you're most interested in.
What makes you think it wouldn't do much to prevent these suicides?
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