BeepPresident Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems
panda_abyssSo they signed a contract, decided they don’t line the teens, now they’re trying to extort Anthropic and gaslighting to claim Anthropic is strong arming them?
I fucking hate this administration man.
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.
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.
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
Depends on how long the contract is, and who the administration is when that happens.
it will be Trump unless someone deals with him in 6 months
Oh. Didn’t realize the contracts were just 6 months long. I thought they were more like 10 years or something.
They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability.
That’s not the same as choosing not to renew a contract.
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.
They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability.
This is the justification for phasing them out and (presumably) not renewing the contract. Happens all the time. Usually with less angry internet posts and more quiet paper pushing.
It’s one of the reasons DoD things can be expensive. DoD contractors aren’t allowed to use the cheap Chinese supplier, for example.
No, they declared them a supply chain vulnerability and that all companies that do business with the DoD are forbidden from doing business with Anthropic.
What that means in terms of AWS and Google Cloud being DoD contractors and being used to serve Anthropic’s models is still unclear. Potentially this means they can’t.
This is not just justification, this was extortion, and now is them doing their best to destroy this company for standing up to them.
He doesn’t say anything about breaking a signed contract
Ofc he wouldn’t say that, especially if it’s true LOL
This is exactly what he did with every single trade deal he spent the last year working on. It’s a pattern of behavior.
And basically why we’re where we are with Iran.
Yeah, you can’t do business with the US government anymore. It’s just not feasible.
The funniest and dumbest part of this is how he doesn’t want the "radical left AI making military decisions… When what he was pissed about is the denial of anthropic in making the final military decision to launch missiles and fire weapons to kill.
So he’s pissed at what was allowed, and he’s pissed at what wasn’t allowed?
Jeebus man ! Trump or his oligarch backers have no chance of keeping their violent global hegemony, so they’ll take control at home. It won’t stop by an election, as both sides are sponsored/paid by the same forces.
I would seriously shit my pants if I were a Merican and had to look forward to decades of an unbridled elite trying to keep their powers by force ! ‘Blade Runner’ step aside…
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
Well, you know what they say. The sun even shines on a stopped dog’s ass twice a day.
Or something like that. I don’t fucking know anymore.
No not really. They’ll just find another company who will build them machines that kill without human intervention.
No not really, they are cutting the lesser evil so they can go with the greater evil. In short, Claude won’t fire their weapons for them, so mechahitler gets the trigger.
PALINTIR sure would too, since they have providing “profiles targets” for israel and ukraine.
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
TattorackYeah. A good thick slice of Anarchism might be what we need to reset things.
That is Anarchism, with capital “A”, the anti-authority ideology.
wanton violence doesn’t really work, this has been tried before. you need precise and well thought out violence. last i bother to check, something like 70-80% of the $ behind far-right america comes from like <20 people
SchmooWhere did they mention wanton violence? That’s not what anarchism is, and that’s also not what’s portrayed in V for Vendetta.
been awhile since i watched V for Vendetta, in my memory is basically just The Purge with accents and a little more monologuing
You should give it another viewing. There’s violence, but it’s not just random murder for its own sake like in The Purge. The protagonist carries out a series of targeted assassinations against people who were involved in detaining and experimenting on him in a concentration camp, and blows up a couple of empty buildings at the beginning and end of the movie in a symbolic act of defiance against a fascist regime. There’s a bit towards the end where he ships a bunch of guy fawkes masks to everyone and there’s some robbing and looting, but no killing until a secret police guy shoots an unarmed child in the street and some people jump him. The plot overall is about people rising up against and toppling a fascist regime, which is pretty relevant to current events.
You forgot wargames
This just in: toddler throws tantrum because someone took his toys away
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)
Still. I will happily take a company with some moral fiber over one with none when it comes to this AI race to the bottom.
Not saying Anthropic are the good guys here (there are none IMHO) but they are clearly trying to be the “less bad guys”.
Reports of Anthropic’s moral fiber have been greatly exaggerated:
- Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators
- Anthropic’s CEO admits compromising with authoritarian regimes to secure AI funding
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei backs President Trump on AI policy, pushes back on criticism
Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan… We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race.
Oh, I am not saying they’re not still opportunistic money-chasers. Hence the comment about there not being any good AI companies. To me though, their reluctance on some topics and honest admissions on the capabilities of their AI make it appear that they less happy to throw all principals overboard in the race to win the AI market than the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Musk.
“we programmed the AI leopards to not eat our faces”
Sounds like Sam Altman would be a better match for Donald Trump.
Literally none of those words are hyperbole either. This comment is closer to factual reporting than what’s left on American TVs.
It’s also just reasons they vote and support him
talNah. He just has a very high willingness to lie or misrepresent anything. Like, no regard for reputation or consistency or anything. He’ll make entirely-contradictory statements depending upon occasion. If he thinks that it will buy the slightest iota of political oomph to say that Anthropic is violating the Constitution, he’ll do so, even if he doesn’t have the slightest grounds to make that statement.
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
At the very least, didn’t Sam Altman/OpenAI say they intend to have these exact same restrictions?
I don’t want to paraphrase him out of context, so here is his full statement:
“I don’t personally think the Pentagon should be threatening DPA against these companies. But I also think that companies that choose to work with the Pentagon, as long as it is going to comply with legal protections and the few red lines that the field, we have, I think we share with Anthropic and that other companies also independently agree with, I think it is important to do that. For all the differences I have with Anthropic, I mostly trust them as a company, and I think they really do care about safety, and I’ve been happy that they’ve been supporting our warfighters.”
The D Quuuuuilllike that he didn’t rape his sister
abbiistabbiiIsn’t Altman Gay?
theguardian.com/…/openai-chief-executive-sam-altm…
rape and sexual impropriety are about power and control, not sexual orientation.
Oh fuck
Sam Altman the infamous grifter? The same Altman whose foot in the door into the tech industry was inflating user numbers to get his app sold? That Sam Altman?