Yet another Hacker News

Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models

56 points pretext 2 hours ago 9 comments

nubinetwork 52 minutes ago | parent

Kindof old news, they've been doing this for months...

pkoird 50 minutes ago | parent

Better block than falsify information. Last I heard they were deliberately botching it whenever someone asked semi-advanced questions on model training.

dominotw 48 minutes ago | parent

so models can reveal "advanced" model building secrets ? how?

How is it a secret if everyone has a model that is exactly like the other. Surely there are no secrets

georgemcbay 36 minutes ago | parent

> Surely there are no secrets

Not yet, especially not with all of the incestuous cross-hiring that all the labs do.

But perhaps the various L. Bob Rife variants running these labs are using their advanced unreleased models to work on their own Snow Crashes.

tristanj 32 minutes ago | parent

This user is based in Hong Kong, where Claude is geo-blocked and not available. If you try visiting claude.ai from a Hong Kong IP address, you get an "unavailable in this region" message.

They are likely accessing Claude via a VPN. Doing model training work over a VPN is a highly suspicious signal, and likely triggers Anthropic's classifiers. It's not surprising that their account got flagged.

leobuskin 27 minutes ago | parent

US/EU here (both, due to traveling), same story with anything related to modifying existing weights or SotA approaches in training/research, it's not a geolocation issue. The safeguards don't check your IP (but pretty soon will check someone's IP [pun intended])

giancarlostoro 25 minutes ago | parent

I have been using it to train a few BERT models.

WhereIsTheTruth 11 minutes ago | parent

US Security Chip act next, your GPU will soon enforce these restrictions too