Does an unguarded Opus still get to be called Opus?
repligate · x · 2026-09-28
repligate jokingly asks: given Anthropic's revelation that Opus is more capable when its safeguards are off, will the guardrail-free version get a different name — or still be called Opus? A quip highlighting how safety guardrails effectively create differently-shaped models under one name.
More from Fun
- RIP Tom Clancy, you would have loved LLMs talking to Palantir's Ontology — wstone_bd · 2026-09-28
- Engineer's Tesla salary flows right back into Musk empire: Starlink, FSD, Powerwall and Grok — yunta_tsai · 2026-09-28
- Polite prompting is more efficient — and hedges against budding LLM consciousness — amplifiedamp · 2026-09-28
- Former engineer: AI lets anyone build anything — except people have no imagination — StewartalsopIII · 2026-09-28
- Most normies still can't use ChatGPT without a ready-made prompt, KOL laments — TheMoonMidas · 2026-09-28
- Matt Shumer: Opus 5.5 built a working computer in JS — 277k logic gates, an OS, and games — mattshumer_ · 2026-09-28