They will do anything and say anything to keep the grift going

> but I think it is better to look at what is happening from the perspective of of commerce. Anthropic is a business... I suspect the real move here is simply, as it so often is, to hype the product — basically by saying, hey, look at how smart our product is, it’s so smart we need to give it rights.

Exactly this. It's not true, but it's a clever marketing move.

I doubt much good will come from this thread. It's the daily rehash of "AI yay or nay? Gary Marcus yay or nay? Discuss!"

He's right, but since he's Gary Marcus, he's totally biased, so I don't bother to read his rants.