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The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

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Re: The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

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Are you sure it’s about principles and not primarily the bribery involved? OAI leadership has bribed the administration. It may be due to principles and the principled stand Anthropic has taken has caused trouble, but they have also not delivered a bribery as far as we can see. When there is a protection money racket in play, it’s hard for me to take other factors as seriously. This is gangster economics not a philos…

What bribery are you talking about?

the one they legalized: Lobbying and settle out of court with the Trump family.

Re: The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

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The articles and discussion around this and the Amazon story all seem to me to be an earnest tech press and community searching for a genuine reason for the administration blocking Anthropic’s models. However, thinking back to the spat with the DoD and more generally how the administration is much more supportive - and supported by - OpenAI and XAI and it’s easy to imagine this is just another escalation in the fight…

If Anthropic's "liberal leaning" they sure do a good job of being subtle/non-obnoxious about it.

Re: The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

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Boy, they put on a great show. If you think that's how it was perceived in Redmond, you don't know anyone there.

See this is the issue with engineers, they think they are fighting with the government while the C-Suite wine and dine with them instead. Just like all the engineers at Google who actually bought into the whole "Don't do evil" while building the "death star" of destruction of personal information. There is no good corporation, and no matter how much the people inside the company thing they are influencing the corpora…

Reddit is that way ---->

Re: The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

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post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What bribery are you talking about?

the one they legalized: Lobbying and settle out of court with the Trump family.

Greg Brockman gifted $25 million. Altman has reports of gifts as well

Re: The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy

#155
post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See this is the issue with engineers, they think they are fighting with the government while the C-Suite wine and dine with them instead. Just like all the engineers at Google who actually bought into the whole "Don't do evil" while building the "death star" of destruction of personal information. There is no good corporation, and no matter how much the people inside the company thing they are influencing the corpora…

Reddit is that way ---->

You’re a better commenter than this thread leads on.
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