The whole thing was a scam • Hacker News Board

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by deaux » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:57 AM UTC

fisherjeff wrote: post #194

Honestly, this makes me almost feel better about the whole situation. I had been finding it super unsettling: Like, why would DoD go nuclear over wanting to build fully autonomous weapons… with Claude? But no, it’s just run-of-the-mill Trump administration corruption. Phew!

Unfortunately the article is wrong, the OpenAI deal relents on exactly what Anthropic wouldn't. The OpenAI deal is "you can do anything that's 'legal'". This is the same as "zero restrictions", in the real world. Anthropic was offered the same and said "no, these two usecases are not allowed, period".

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by arttaboi » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 3:58 AM UTC

jazzpush2 wrote: post #193

Just cancelled my chatgpt subscription.

That's a wrong move I guess (you willingly take pain but no one else suffers). The right one would be to get an Anthropic subscription. And an even better one would be to donate to the Democrats.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by arttaboi » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:02 AM UTC

juleiie wrote: post #75

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. This HST quote seems severely outdated by now. They have already been caught, committed all the sins of stupidity and some more. All of it to the clapping mob of people who yearn for some kind of social revenge. And it’s happening everywhere these last years. Who could possibly know…

Modern spin: In a closed society where everybody is guilty, the only crime is not being in power.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by spopejoy » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:03 AM UTC

3rodents wrote: post #129

Ifkaluva wrote: post #20

25M isn’t even that much money. Not only are they whores, they’re cheap whores.

There is no need for such derogatory language, sex workers would be deeply offended that you compared them to the Trump apparatus.

I can't understand why denigrating someone as a prostitute or w**e is not called out as inappropriate if not fully misogynist. Its history is deeply, inescapably misogynist, it's anti-sex worker as you say, and it's just tacky. Corruption of morals for money doesn't need to be feminized to make an argument.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by spopejoy » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:05 AM UTC

ben_w wrote: post #24

CamperBob2 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the inevitable result is a mass exodus of both capital and top-tier talent To where?

Anywhere offering opportunity. I'm in Europe, I'd like to see it come here. The news I see suggests China's ahead of us in this race, but I don't know if that's for all talent, or if it was just an artefact of a lot of Chinese people in the US on work visas returning home. Or indeed whether the news about China doing well here was real or hallucinated by an LLM.

Don't get too complacent, the far right is on the rise in EU, and corruption follows.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by archon810 » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:09 AM UTC

Paddyz wrote: post #191

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It was Greg and Anna Brockman who donated, not Altman. But close enough to the goal post.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by kgwxd » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:10 AM UTC

Paddyz wrote: post #191

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Tool assisted. And I'm not talking about the AI.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by tjwebbnorfolk » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:11 AM UTC

Paddyz wrote: post #191

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Convincing naive people that you're building AI because you love people is the fastest route to power. You have it backwards. There was never any "arc".

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by kazinator » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:16 AM UTC

> It’s one thing for the government to reject Anthropic’s terms—and entirely another to banish them permanently and, absurdly and punitively declare them a supply chain risk. Worse, they did it in favor of someone else who took pretty similar terms and happened to have given more campaign contributions.

It's just a variation on Snowball being chased off Animal Farm.

Re: The whole thing was a scam

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Post by croes » Sun, Mar 01, 2026, 4:25 AM UTC

127 wrote: post #156

croes wrote: post #119

> In capitalism, the market decides. > In oligarchy, connections and donations decide. > but after Brockman had donated 25M to Trump’s PAC Sounds like they paid Trump and the government, can it get more capitalistic? Oligarchy and capitalism don’t contradict each other

Free market capitalism and corporatocracy are two opposite things. (Free markets don't exist without strong institutions and regulation)

Real free market capitalism is a real as working communism and have both the same underlying problem: people.

They lie and cheat to accumulate power