7 comments

  • tristanj 9 minutes ago

    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 4 minutes ago

      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 a minute ago

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

  • nubinetwork 28 minutes ago

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

      pkoird 26 minutes ago

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

        dominotw 24 minutes ago

        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 12 minutes ago

          > 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.