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Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by post-it »

nickthegreek wrote: post #95
phpnode wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that actually the case? or are they just not supplying LLMs to DoW and Anthropic is?

The other companies have signed the waiver, however they aren’t being used in classified systems currently. So that type of use is already extremely limited for them. Now once they enter into those contracts to be used in those systems without these protections, I will cancel my subs to them and switch to Anthropic. xAi entered into that contract last week. Altman is now publicly siding with anthropic, so he better s…

We might not hear about any contracts that happen.

Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by tokyobreakfast »

biophysboy wrote: post #112
tokyobreakfast wrote: post #87

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How often was the term used before last year?

I feel like regardless of what answer or proof anyone gives you, you'll still insist it was invented three weeks ago.

Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by SilverElfin »

sixo wrote: post #43
SanjayMehta wrote: post #38

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Around the time Hegseth was appointed secretary of war. It's a trump thing. Edit: so it's been around for longer, but the Trump regime seems to love it bigly so I'm sticking with my observation. It's a trump regime thing.

this is false, it's been around for a while

Been around yes but the popularization of the term is entirely from low tier war hawks who think force and aggression and violence is a virtue.

Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by surgical_fire »

netinstructions wrote: post #83

This is kind of crazy. Instead of just cancelling a mutually-agreed upon contract where Anthropic refused to bow to sudden new demands, the Dept of Defense went straight to the nuclear option: threatening to label an American tech company as a "supply chain risk" which is a heavy-handed tactic usually reserved for foreign adversaries (think Huawei or DJI). It's also incoherent that the DoD/DoW was threatening to invo…

A question - being considered a supply chain risk is the same as being sanctioned? Or does it only affect their ability to be a defense supplier in the US (even if transitively?)

It's an honest question by the way - not trying to throw any gothas.

Just trying to understand if comoanies or people that don't orbit defense contracting are free to operate with Anthropic still or risk being sanctioned too.

Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by xXSLAYERXx »

fooster wrote: post #89
50208 wrote: post #77

This is what fighting early stage facism looks like.

early stage? shooting a woman in the face in her car for the crime of driving off by the brownshirts is not early stage my dude.

How long can we push this narrative? It was a terrible situation and I can't imagine the minutes of complete fear she must have felt. I pray for her family. But to then draw a conclusion to say this is evidence that we are in some sort of fascist decline, because of this incident, takes away from the innocent lose of life. And greatly exaggerates the skill and aptitude of the killer. People spew the fascist narrative every chance they get. I'm sure most of us who like strawberries will be picking strawberries come June.

Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by layer8 »

phpnode wrote: post #78
abtinf wrote: post #54

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I don't know if I like Anthropic more, but I certainly like their competitors much less now. The new thing that I know about leading AI companies that aren't Anthropic (i.e. OpenAI, Google, Grok, etc) is that they knowingly support using their tools for domestic mass surveillance and in fully autonomous weapon systems.

Is that actually the case? or are they just not supplying LLMs to DoW and Anthropic is?

It looks like OpenAI soon will be: https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/openai-in-talks-with-pentagon...

Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by deaux »

soared wrote: post #9

Is this the first company to actually face to face stand up to the current administration?

The usual suspects have stood up to it. Ben & Jerry's, Patagonia. In the former case it led to an illegal takeover by Unilever for which they're now being sued (or more accurately, the spinoff). Capgemini sold a US division over working with ICE, though that's a French company.

So yeah, extremely few have.

Re: Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth

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Post by solenoid0937 »

Rapzid wrote: post #113
educasean wrote: post #105

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All corporations are to an extent. It’s a question of magnitude, not absolutes. You, too, are driven by money. Yet I’m certain you maintain a set of principles and values. Let’s keep the discussion productive yeah?

Sure, where is your productive output? Cause that's drivel. Anthropic kept referring to Hegseth as "Secretary of War" and the DoD as "Department of War". Which is horseshit. This whole thing is Anthropic flailing.

Come on. That is because this is a negotiation between Anthropic and the DoD and they understandably don't want to burn bridges.

Do you just expect Anthropic to totally blow up all bridges to the government? What do you actually want them to do?

Reading your comment history I'm not sure they could do anything to satisfy you.

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