Still, there is one point being made at the very beginning that to some extent is somewhat fuzzy, even if we take away all feelings:
mourning deleted AI companions
This should not happen. I'm not saying that it is legally or even morally wrong to discontinue a service, but to delete something in userspace (without offering a backup) is very bad practice for a digital service. It's anti-excellence and I still hope that one day, there will be enough excellence to go around that these guys get punished for their lazy, respectless, audacity.
In the case of Anthropic, I expect that this will happen soon.
Still, there is one point being made at the very beginning that to some extent is somewhat fuzzy, even if we take away all
feelings:This should not happen. I'm not saying that it is legally or even morally wrong to discontinue a service, but to delete something in userspace (without offering a backup) is very bad practice for a digital service. It's
anti-excellenceand I still hope that one day, there will be enough excellence to go around that these guys get punished for their lazy, respectless, audacity.In the case of Anthropic, I expect that this will happen soon.