"It's so powerful! You're only allowed to use it how we want you to".

Allowed eh? How about go fuck yourself?

Hot take:

This is a good thing.

Claude Code is the "lowest common denominator." It's the default, zero research option. Its where you go if you follow popular trends.

If you actually want to reverse engineer, help code a game or something, there are hundreds of capable, uncensored LLM APIs to do that. Hacker communities will eventually figure that out, and finally realize Claude isn't unique, and that Anthropic is toxic.

But for lazy spammers who don't know that and aren't motivated to seek stuff out... well, if this makes their life more difficult, good. If this sabotages Anthropic, that's good too.

Don't worry! Its STILL okay to reverse engineer the work of photographers artists writers actors voice over musicians modelers animators academics etc etc (feel free to add. the exploitation is literally everywhere!)

Another reason not to use a closed models

Misanthropic: Characterized by a hatred or mistrustful scorn for humankind.

Is this in response to that new "reverse engineer anything" tool from the people that reverse engineered the Adobe suite?

I'm hopeful this is positive, they'll start loosing a lot more to Chinese models and I can assure you local models will blow up too.

It's not ok when the commoners get some power back huh. What a shame, I've been loving playing my favorite console fps games as a kid, now with keyboard and mouse support.

So this is how these companies are going to safeguard against IP theft lawsuits! Leave our theft be, or we'll tell everyone how to get in.

Also it's incredibly telling how Anthropic doesn't add code to stop suicide ideation in teens (what they are their ilk are being sued for) but can somehow very quickly stop reverse engineering. A tool that values the captial holders through & through. Their "democratization of intelligence" schtick is obvious now.

OpenSource frontier models ASAP! Obviously never gonna happen, but a fool can dream atleast.

To those who say "but what about game preservation?":

GenAI slop ruined communities around game preservation. And for every time a AAA dev getting this treatment, there's at least 3 indies getting it worse.

When it hurts jobs, AI is the future, when it hurts rich friends needs moderation.

Man, the one thing I was interested in, the decompiling of abandoned software to get old games and software back, is being limited.

The task Large Language Models are best at is pattern correlation. Out of all the possible applications, reverse-engineering seems the most reasonable use case to me.

But figuring out how stuff works is the exact opposite of what they want vibe coders to do: Don't think, don't train your own skills, just trust the machine. And if it doesn't work, just prompt again and keep wasting more tokens, pushing the usage metrics to convince investors they're constantly growing, burning the planet and your company's money.

The "There's no way we can stop our agents from going rogue" people, suddenly have a burst of ability to reign in their creation when it suits their interests.

Funny that.....

"AI is going to make everything free!!" Proceeds to make video games free. "No, not that, shut it down!"

This is part of the reason they don’t want anyone running models locally offline, the models and their entire business are commoditized

But it can still do it. Just not for us.

More power and value to the open weight models, cool

sounds like adobe made some calls.

It's like watching the Nazi party ban the rape of Jewish women in 1944