Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’

Post by foltik » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 11:36 AM UTC

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> companies have to be subject to government especially in technologies that enable or manage violence. this is because the role of the government is to collectively manage and allocate violence in the manner the people desire I don’t know what you’re describing, but it’s not how the US works. Companies aren’t extensions of the state; they’re private actors that have to follow the law. If Congress wants something pro…

agencies create many regulations which affect companies, with no input from congress. the ATF in 2017 banned 'bump stocks' by reclassifying them as machineguns with zero input from congress. companies and the people who work for them are subject to the state via the law and regulations. if they violate the law, the state will use violence to enforce the law, with a government entity called law enforcement and law enf…

Post by _2d30 » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 11:43 AM UTC

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That he's talking shit about Altman who is, at least in public, only talking up Anthropic. This will only play well with people who hate Altman, which is not the majority or even much of the public. It plays right into Altman's hand who can do what he always does which is play his "smol bean billionaire" role and act like a victim of big bad Amodei. Just because you hate Altman doesn't mean everyone else does! Most p…

Most people don’t care about this drama and those who care, based on everything I read, this letter will mostly make Anthropic look good / re-establish Sam Altman as a liar But of course we could live in different bubbles

Post by cousin_it » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 11:55 AM UTC

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Dario's full memo - https://pasteboard.co/4Qlmsorrytlk.jpg

Here's the extracted text https://pastebin.com/LS2LpLZ7

Post by thegreatpeter » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 12:05 PM UTC

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> Choosing Grok would be bad for the US They chose Grok and OpenAI. The story was drowned out by the Anthropic controversy, but an xAI deal was signed the same week.

Grok is chosen because Musk spent $250+ million to elect Trump and is expected to underwrite the 2026 elections. Also, a lot of Trumps and their friends are invested in SpaceX. So they give them money too, but use OpenAI or Claude. I have a feeling that the military likes Claude more

Post by wsng » Thu, Mar 05, 2026, 12:13 PM UTC

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I'd hate to break it to you, but companies do have a right to determine how their products are used. You were subject to that when you wrote that comment. Did you not notice that?

No, I do not think they do. If a buy a car a run somebody over on purpose, the manufacturer has no right to come take my car away. Even if it were to be written in a contract.