“Because we’re human, we tend to personify AI and imagine it as some kind of glowing robot with a benign and neutral face, when it’s really just predictive code based on a massive stolen database of actual writing, physically based in vast, expensive and destructive datacentres with catastrophic repercussions for the surrounding communities,” he said.

Kennard also stressed that AI was not a “tool” similar to spellcheck or a thesaurus...

A very valuable comment compared to the author of OP's article who simply seems entitled to this cloud service?

And now Anthropic is saying they’re going to make it worse, on purpose, for purposes that do not benefit me in any way? Even if only slightly worse?

Get fucked.