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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.

Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.

WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

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[–] 344 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

So they signed a contract, decided they don't like the terms, now they're trying to extort Anthropic and gaslighting to claim Anthropic is strong arming them?

I fucking hate this administration man.

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  • [–] 122 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    Anthropic took a stance against their AI in weapons and battlefield management systems. The government wants that ability and therefore chose to ban Anthropic as a supplier for government systems.

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  • [–] 124 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Yes but they already signed a contract WITH the safety limits in place.

    I get that obviously they would want them removed, bit that is not what they signed.

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

    He doesn't say anything about breaking a signed contract. Simply that Anthropic will be phased out and no longer used by the government.

    As a corollary, I doubt Anthropic's contract will be renewed when the current one expires.

    Edit: Grammar

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability.

    That’s not the same as choosing not to renew a contract.

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  • [–] 31 points 6 months ago

    Trump and Hegseth tried two different things simultaneously. They tried to deem Anthropic both a hostile actor, which would cut all DoD contracts off completely, and then also tried to declare them essential and force them to ignore the safety limits set forth in the contract, which is the supply chain thing.

    So yeah, the incompetence is showing as it always is.

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    [–] 258 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

    You have to realize, what exactly Anthropic refused: To extend the current contract to two things:

    • Autonomous Weapons (AI deciding on firing weapons to kill humans)
    • AI-powered mass surveillance of american citizens

    refusing those two things makes it to be the only AI company that is ""radical left"". Now Google, OpenAI or Grok will do what Anthropic has done already, plus mass surveillance plus AI-killcommands

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    At the very least, didn't Sam Altman/OpenAI say they intend to have these exact same restrictions?

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    [–] 148 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology

    There will be a Six Month phase out period

    What a fucking moron.

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    [–] 143 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I'm just so tired of seeing 1984 and Brazil and Idiocracy and every other political warning and satire played out in the real world every goddamn day of my life

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    [–] 92 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    The absurdity to claim that Anthropic is strong-arming the DoD and forcing them to do anything when just the other day it was reported that the DoD was threatening this exact action if Anthropic didn't comply with their demands is laughable.

    It feels like a pretty low bar to clear to tell this orange fuck to piss off, but at least one of the AI companies has a spine.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Anthropic is self righteous and self serving.

    Like, I like local LLMs more than most, and Anthropic models are great at the moment, but don’t mistake Anthropic for having a spine.

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I mean... this is losing them a 200 million dollar contract. And to one of their competitors who will gladly acquiesce, so it's hard to argue that this benefits them.

    Good marketing to a bunch of left-wing people who hate AI, I guess, but that feels like Elon joining the Trump administration in hopes of selling Teslas to rednecks, it might work on a few, but I just can't imagine this is 4D chess that will make them a fortune when they're abandoning that much money immediately.

    Their statement also came after the DOW threatened to put them on the list of companies that are totally banned from doing any business in America, usually reserved for Chinese companies that are deemed a national security threat, which would make it illegal for any company doing business in America to do any business with them, as they'd be added to the same list, which would have essentially killed Anthropic as a business entirely.

    You don't have to love Anthropic because they did a good thing, they were fine with anything less than automatic killing and mass surveillance, after all, but I don't think it's correct to say this was sneaky and spineless somehow.

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  • [–] 18 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Eh, the context I was thinking of is that they are constantly playing “safety theatre” where it absolutely doesn’t matter. They’ve tried to kill open models and basically capture regulators by misleading or outright lying, for their benefit.

    In other words, this is a case of “a broken clock is right sometimes,” and I think they knew Trump will back down.

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    [–] 69 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.

    Anthropic yesterday:

    Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions. Our models will be available on the expansive terms we have proposed for as long as required. -Dario's Post

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  • [–] 42 points 6 months ago

    "We'll do X for you."

    "YOU'D BETTER DO X OR YOU'LL BE SORRY!"

    "...Yes, as we said, we'll do X."

    "HA! I WIN! I BEAT YOU LOSERS AND NOW YOU'RE DOING WHAT I TOLDED YOU TO! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"

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  • [–] 68 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    How are Anthropic left wing? I thought they were regarded as being not much better than ChatGPT?

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  • [–] 53 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    everything 47 personally doesn't like is lunatic left. AOC? lunatic left. eating his broccoli? lunatic left. when his phone runs out of battery mid toilet tantrum? lunatic left

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  • [–] 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    HE IS A DEMENTED RAPIST CONMAN

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    [–] 52 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    How can anyone read this shit and not cringe?

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    [–] 42 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Dude, this just gave Anthropic so much credibility. They can literally own the entire AI market now.

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago

    "pedophile Donald J Trump yells at the cloud"

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  • [–] 34 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    When the AI company only wants to be 99% Hitler (They're okay with their bot recommending bombing minorities overseas, but they don't want to be held liable when it pushes the button and the bomb comes down in America instead)

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    [–] 31 points 6 months ago

    A spoiled brat writing a angry letter to santa saying his parents don't let him do stupid things.

    Only it's the elected US President.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 30 points 6 months ago

    Maybe i should give Claude a try, thanks for recommendation pedo j. trump

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  • [–] 24 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    This is the kind of stuff I think about whenever a Democrat tries to tell me that Biden or Obama were powerless.

    They could have done this to the makers of assault rifles in order to spur greater regulation in the wake of mass shootings. After all, they're certainly contracted with various federal entities.

    That is, if they gave a shit.

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    [–] 24 points 6 months ago

    Serve Skynet or die... you traitorous scum, is exactly how Skynet gets started and ends.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago

    This is literally impossible to parody. If I had been asked to write an unrealistically over-the-top demented version of whatever I might imagine Trump would have written to convey this, I couldn't have got close.

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  • [–] 21 points 6 months ago

    Good, let the nutjobs fight

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    He is like a spoiled child, just like his shitstain cabinet. I wish there were some way we could identify those who voted for him in 2016, 2020, or 2024 and tattoo an orange T on their foreheads so they could never go anywhere again without ridicule and harassment.

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    [–] 20 points 6 months ago

    What a fucking snowflake. Cry harder, bitch.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    This just in: toddler throws tantrum because someone took his toys away

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