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Apparently The Real Reason Anthropic’s Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Trump Grudge (www.techdirt.com)
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As promised, this story just keeps getting stupider.

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[–] 13 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

Anthropic thought sucking up to him was good enough. Remember these are the words of CEO Dario Amodei, spoken supposedly to ensure the public that he wasn't pro-warmonger:

Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner...

Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's not really a to the point I was making, but as you've brought it up, he said that in the midst of refusing to accede to the US militaries demands that they get to use AI for mass surveillance and autonomous weapons.

    You've snipped his words tactically before the pivot to refusal. He said that private companies have no say in how a military chooses to wage war however they would not allow the use of their AI for those two things.

    And he's right. If Lockheed decided they didn't like Obama or a military decision of his and grounded their drones to punish him, that would be inappropriate. Lockheed nor Anthropic get to dictate US military policy. That (among other things) is why we are supposed to elect a President with the wherewithal to make those decisions.

    Now, I don't know Dario. He's a rich CEO and probably he belongs at the bottom of the sea with the rest. But Anthropic refused to allow their tech to be used that way, and that's more than Google or OpenAI, both of whom were audibly salivating to supplant them. Anthropic seems to be the least bad out of all the options.

    That being said, I'm placing my hopes in local AI and getting rid of all the big players, including Anthropic. But in the meanwhile, I do respect them for taking a stand none of their competitors would.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    There was no refusal beyond refusal to take responsibility. Dario said said he never complained about things like bombing schoolchildren. And he's horny for mass surveillance, just not of Americans (selective surveillance is okay though).

    that's more than Google or OpenAI, both of whom were audibly salivating to supplant them.

    I quoted Warfighter Dario salivating to help too. It's in bold. Don't be fooled by his slimy lies.

    Might as well say Google truly does care about your privacy because they say they'll never sell your data.

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