Will Claude help me with reinforcement learning code for games? Or is that too small-fry for it to refuse? I've been playing around with RL with the new DeepSeek Flash model but it seems to trip up over itself a bit.
Perhaps a manifest index/list of training data and learning method should be mandatory for “public” use of any model, sort of like food ingredient package labeling. The list of texts used and any weighting seems important to facilitate a public understanding / debate of model expectations and behavior.
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.
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])
Better block than falsify information. Last I heard they were deliberately botching it whenever someone asked semi-advanced questions on model training.
I don’t think it is revelation, it feels like active incompetence. You can lay out every decision and watch Claude/OpenAI actively fuck up in inexplicable ways.
One day soon, Anthropic will rest on the ash heap of history, and we will be able to laugh at this fleeting, unpleasant episode. It'll be the butt of jokes—like the crooks who tried to corner the onion market in 1955. Dario will be remembered as some name-forgotten crook who once-upon-a-time tried to corner the world AI market; the what's-his-name responsible for the passage of an antitrust "Onion Futures Act" equivalent of 2028—original purpose long-since obscure.
(I'm not dismissing the infamous onion racket. The onion scheme genuinely hurt people, even though today everyone seems to find it very funny. Future generations will think Anthropic was absolutely hilarious. Like some joke about onions or something).
Will Claude help me with reinforcement learning code for games? Or is that too small-fry for it to refuse? I've been playing around with RL with the new DeepSeek Flash model but it seems to trip up over itself a bit.
Perhaps a manifest index/list of training data and learning method should be mandatory for “public” use of any model, sort of like food ingredient package labeling. The list of texts used and any weighting seems important to facilitate a public understanding / debate of model expectations and behavior.
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.
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])
I've read writeups about a user trust score and i'd be surprised if it wasn't true, there's no way the safeguard is just a cls in isolation
> You built your models on the world's data
most important bit…: stealing world's data…
I'm using it to train models with a novel linear flash attention mechanism right now. No refusals, and it's been running for at least a week solid.
I suspect this person was actively using it to generate or classify training data directly.
What sort of data are you getting Claude to generate?
Where I draw the line is asking Claude to label training data. I don’t do this.
I ask it questions about large models like big MoEs all the time. I’ve never had it refuse a question, but I would expect it to refuse sometimes.
For training data from existing models I just get open models to spill their guts. It’s fine
In industry we train employees to not reveal proprietary information.
I think it would be easier to do this for a model than a lot of employees
> Where I draw the line is asking Claude to label training data. I don’t do this.
Why draw any line? Anthropic doesn't. They actively take the world's intellectual property, don't pay for it, and put it behind a paywall.
> but I would expect it to refuse sometimes.
Why? Anthropic's dream is to be exempted from copyright altogether. They've been trying to achieve exactly that:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/02/anthropic...
Given they want no restrictions on them, why should there be any restriction on anyone else?
Kindof old news, they've been doing this for months...
Better block than falsify information. Last I heard they were deliberately botching it whenever someone asked semi-advanced questions on model training.
They walked that part back within days. Still made me permanently leery off relying on anthropic for anything important.
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
I don’t think it is revelation, it feels like active incompetence. You can lay out every decision and watch Claude/OpenAI actively fuck up in inexplicable ways.
It could be simple training tips that are obvious, but which any particular builder might miss.
> 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.
I have been using it to train a few BERT models.
I doubt BERT would trip safeguards
US Security Chip act next, your GPU will soon enforce these restrictions too
Nice. Push more people to use Chinese chips.
One day soon, Anthropic will rest on the ash heap of history, and we will be able to laugh at this fleeting, unpleasant episode. It'll be the butt of jokes—like the crooks who tried to corner the onion market in 1955. Dario will be remembered as some name-forgotten crook who once-upon-a-time tried to corner the world AI market; the what's-his-name responsible for the passage of an antitrust "Onion Futures Act" equivalent of 2028—original purpose long-since obscure.
(I'm not dismissing the infamous onion racket. The onion scheme genuinely hurt people, even though today everyone seems to find it very funny. Future generations will think Anthropic was absolutely hilarious. Like some joke about onions or something).
This, too, will pass.