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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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Are government agencies sending prompts to model inference APIs on remote servers? Or are they running the models in their own environment?

It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation (EDIT: they’re a US corp), would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers. Or are they baking the restrictions into the model weights?

Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

#22

Very strange writing from semafor.com >For instance, an agency could pay for a subscription or negotiate a pay-per-use contract with an AI provider, only to find out that it is prohibited from using the AI model in certain ways, limiting its value. This is of course quite false. They of course know the restriction when they sign the contract.

There are (or at least WERE) entire divisions dedicated to reading every letter of the contract and terms of service, and usually creating 20 page documents seeking clarification for a specific phrase. They absolutely know what they're getting into.

Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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Very strange writing from semafor.com >For instance, an agency could pay for a subscription or negotiate a pay-per-use contract with an AI provider, only to find out that it is prohibited from using the AI model in certain ways, limiting its value. This is of course quite false. They of course know the restriction when they sign the contract.

Are you sure that every restriction that’s in the model is also spelled out in the contract? If they add new ones, do they update the contract?

Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

#25

Are government agencies sending prompts to model inference APIs on remote servers? Or are they running the models in their own environment? It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation (EDIT: they’re a US corp) , would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers. Or are they baking the restrictions into the model weights?

Anthropic is US-based - unless you meant something else by "foreign corporation"?

Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

#26

Are government agencies sending prompts to model inference APIs on remote servers? Or are they running the models in their own environment? It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation (EDIT: they’re a US corp) , would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers. Or are they baking the restrictions into the model weights?

> It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation, would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers.

"Foreign" to who? I interpretted your comment as foreign to the US government (please correct me if I'm wrong) and I was confused because Anthropic is a US company.

Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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post #22

Very strange writing from semafor.com >For instance, an agency could pay for a subscription or negotiate a pay-per-use contract with an AI provider, only to find out that it is prohibited from using the AI model in certain ways, limiting its value. This is of course quite false. They of course know the restriction when they sign the contract.

There are (or at least WERE) entire divisions dedicated to reading every letter of the contract and terms of service, and usually creating 20 page documents seeking clarification for a specific phrase. They absolutely know what they're getting into.

Perhaps it's the finetune of Opus/Sonnet/whatever that is being served to the feds that is the source of the refusal :)

Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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post #26

Are government agencies sending prompts to model inference APIs on remote servers? Or are they running the models in their own environment? It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation (EDIT: they’re a US corp) , would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers. Or are they baking the restrictions into the model weights?

> It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation, would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers. "Foreign" to who? I interpretted your comment as foreign to the US government (please correct me if I'm wrong) and I was confused because Anthropic is a US company.

Ah my mistake. I thought they were French. I got them confused with Mistral.

The concern remains even if it’s a US corporation though (not government owned servers).

Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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Are government agencies sending prompts to model inference APIs on remote servers? Or are they running the models in their own environment? It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation (EDIT: they’re a US corp) , would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers. Or are they baking the restrictions into the model weights?

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Re: Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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post #22

Very strange writing from semafor.com >For instance, an agency could pay for a subscription or negotiate a pay-per-use contract with an AI provider, only to find out that it is prohibited from using the AI model in certain ways, limiting its value. This is of course quite false. They of course know the restriction when they sign the contract.

There are (or at least WERE) entire divisions dedicated to reading every letter of the contract and terms of service, and usually creating 20 page documents seeking clarification for a specific phrase. They absolutely know what they're getting into.

I have a feeling in today's administration which largely "leads by tweet" that many traditional "inefficient" steps have been removed from government processing, probably including software on-boarding.
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