Anthropic podcast interview criticized as PR-grade softball; critic says its AI risk claims predate model progress
tallinzen · x · 2026-09-17
- tallinzen criticizes a podcast interview with Anthropic: articulate guest, but nearly all softball questions — "if he paid a PR firm to make an episode, it wouldn't be much more uncritical."
- His core point: even granting Anthropic/OpenAI lead by a few months, these figures made the same claims years ago when everyone's AI was far worse — so it's not about privileged access to future model versions.
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