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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

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So 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…

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Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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So 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…

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Wow I wonder why they killed so many Americans. Why would they be so mean to us???

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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This article is a total overstatement designed to boost stock prices and none of the actual users can counter the claim because it would require revealing classified information. This is the same kind of claim you’ve all seen before about AI systems doing something amazing and it’s really just a bunch of people sitting in a call center in a third world country controlling the system remotely. Only in this case it’s a…

Do any end users actually use the Palantir AI? I've always assumed that the big customers of it would just put their own custom UI on it that was actually usable.

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Even if you don't care about the needless human suffering the US has caused from this operation, this conflict threatens global stability because of oil supply disruptions, and if the US keeps this up it could get quite bad very quickly. I worked briefly in defense-tech and there is a huge blindspot in this field. While I worked with a ton of thoughtful, ethical, and talented people from the military, there is a veri…

> We are all susceptible to market forces, and companies like Anthropic need as much revenue as possible to be able to maintain themselves and grow given the cost of training.

There's also the consideration that if they come across at too against US military support, the administration can and will make things extremely painful for them. I suspect they've actually gotten off pretty easy just being named a supply chain risk (so far). Imagine the backlash if they'd for example accepted contracts with China. Or even made so much as a hint that they weren't open to most military use cases.

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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I'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…

Throw Claude - or any other very good LLM - a bunch of data and it'll give results in seconds/minutes. Very similar to how sometimes when I run into a stubborn bug, I use a tracer to capture everything that's happening. Before, it'd take me sometimes hours and several scans before I find the issue, and maybe a bit more time to fix it depending on the severity. Now I just throw that full trace at Claude, and so far, 1…

seems like you're missing the forest (this being a matter of life and death) for the trees (you found some bugs).

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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So 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…

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> as if helping destroy an autocratic terror regime that killed thousands of Americans through the years is "dirty”?

> How come HN became so extreme left it can't understand this is a good thing?

Good Thing? How deranged are you to say something without proof and accuse others of a being left, when people are being normal.

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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> It’s war.

Isn't this a special operation?

Re: Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours

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Even if you don't care about the needless human suffering the US has caused from this operation, this conflict threatens global stability because of oil supply disruptions, and if the US keeps this up it could get quite bad very quickly. I worked briefly in defense-tech and there is a huge blindspot in this field. While I worked with a ton of thoughtful, ethical, and talented people from the military, there is a veri…

> We are all susceptible to market forces, and companies like Anthropic need as much revenue as possible to be able to maintain themselves and grow given the cost of training. There's also the consideration that if they come across at too against US military support, the administration can and will make things extremely painful for them. I suspect they've actually gotten off pretty easy just being named a supply chai…

As soon as you accept "we need to survive to do good," survival becomes the priority and the good becomes negotiable. And so every compromise reduces their ethical position a little more.

Living in accordance with an ethical framework only matters when that decision is hard. There are clearly consequences to doing so. But Anthropic has clearly forfeited their right to claim the moral high ground. Their posturing against OpenAI is based on a false dichotomy: they are arguing around a cutout incredibly minor commensurate with their broader exposure.

I think Anthropic can avoid contracting with the military at this stage, with all of their babbling about alignment, and not actively contract with China.

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