There are not enough ethics courses being taught in schools and universities. https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted
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Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
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Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
#22If it has good enough capacity for the military it is very possible we are receiving dumbed down / nerfed versions of Claude.
Your hypothesis: you and I don't have a good enough version of Claude.
My hypothesis: you and I don't have missiles.
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#23Is that what targeted the school? Or was that intentional?
> Witnesses and an education ministry official said that the school was located on a compound that was a base for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps until about 15 years ago.
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-school-strike-us-mil...
In this case it seems plausible that the military would have an outdated database, and that an LLM would have "known" it wasn't a base anymore, assuming the LLM was trained on documents/maps with this up to date information.
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#24So will there be droves of people canceling their Claude subscription too?
None of these companies are clean and I think it’s hilarious HN and the rest of SV has been duped by Dario. He’s playing the game better than Sam is, imo. Nothing Dario has said has indicated he is regretful about their partnership with Palantir or any of the stuff they’ve done with the DoD in the past 2.5 years.
Edit: this Washington Post article seems to be the original source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/03/04/anthrop...
Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
#25I'm really curious to understand why this was done and why it was necessary. I cannot imagine the AI was used to identify targets without any base information. ie, I imagine the military already had a list of targets and locations. How would the AI know from satellite imagery that something was a military target. If that's the case, why did they need help selecting targets? I can only imagine that the military bases…
This is wild guess. I'm working with GIS and Claude has proven to be extremely savvy. I can see operators throwing hundreds of layers and coming back with a "there a possible military installation here". Same tech that is used to find unregulated pools, or measuring the density of parking lots, or Nazca lines, but much more on demand for specific purposes.
Just to clarify, I don't condone the use of AI for guessing targets, but I think that's what may be going on here.
Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
#261k targets and a few hundred school girls.
I wonder what the people who cancelled their ChatGPT subscriptions and switched to Anthropic are thinking now. All these providers are the same.
I'm convinced that Claude is being used to run hype train on HN.
That's option A, option B is pure halo effect. I.e. Claude is so good that people misascribe positive attributes to Anthropic.
Otherwise it really is mind boggling to see people laud Dario's posts which are tone blind to Europeans at least.
Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
#271k targets and a few hundred school girls.
I wonder what the people who cancelled their ChatGPT subscriptions and switched to Anthropic are thinking now. All these providers are the same.
Anthropic objected to being used to build autonomous weapons and domestic surveillance. They didn't obejct to being used to hit schools in Iran.
OpenAI didn't object to anything.
They're all bad, but some are worse than others.
Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours
#28This is the AI we're using to kill people now, surely it won't make any mistakes or confidently target civilians on accident: https://youtube.com/shorts/WxbHtYzBnvo?si=xh4kda_DuNvHFx0L
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#29Is that what targeted the school? Or was that intentional?
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The school was a seperate building so targeting or weapon precision was pretty sloppy.
The shift toward war crime whataboutism is a new low for HN, capping off a week of aggressive warmongering and intellectualized cruelty in every comment thread about Iran.
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#30So will there be droves of people canceling their Claude subscription too? None of these companies are clean and I think it’s hilarious HN and the rest of SV has been duped by Dario. He’s playing the game better than Sam is, imo. Nothing Dario has said has indicated he is regretful about their partnership with Palantir or any of the stuff they’ve done with the DoD in the past 2.5 years. Edit: this Washington Post art…
I remember considering applying for Anthropic about 1.5 years ago because they seemed like a somewhat more ethical AI company. Then I learned about their Palantir partnership and realized it was all just a clever marketing gimmick.