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Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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From that same X thread: Our agreement with the Department of War upholds our redlines [1] OpenAI has the same redlines as Anthopic based on Altman's statements [2]. However somehow Anthropic gets banished for upholding their redlines and OpenAI ends up with the cash? [1]: https://xcancel.com/OpenAI/status/2027846013650932195#m [2]: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic...

Brockman donating $25 million dollars in January might have a little something to do with it..

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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From that same X thread: Our agreement with the Department of War upholds our redlines [1] OpenAI has the same redlines as Anthopic based on Altman's statements [2]. However somehow Anthropic gets banished for upholding their redlines and OpenAI ends up with the cash? [1]: https://xcancel.com/OpenAI/status/2027846013650932195#m [2]: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/27/nx-s1-5729118/trump-anthropic...

OpenAI is playing games. When Anthropic says they have red lines, they mean "We refuse to let you use our models for these ends, even if it means losing nearly a billion dollars in business." When OpenAI says they have red lines, they mean "We are going to let the DoD do whatever the hell they want, but we will shake our fist at them while they do it." That's why they got the contract. The DoD was clear about what th…

I am going to stop using ChatGPT immediately.

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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That policy changed a long time ago. The last declaration of war was June 4, 1942. After Vietnam, Congress passed the War Powers Resolution to limit the ability of Presidents to conduct military action without Congressional approval, but it still allows military action for up to 60 days. Every President since then has used that power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution

Iraq war was the last declared war. Afghanistan war was also declared.

Incorrect. The only times America has formally declared war were the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II.

In the case of the Barbary Wars, Vietnam War, the Iraq War and War on Terror / Afghanistan War, etc... congress approved military engagement but DID NOT issue a formal Declaration of War.

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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Or it could have just been a genuine question. I'm not American and I've seen DoW used in newspapers and thought the name change was official. Personally I've thought it a more apt and honest name for what they do. But the backlash in the commments here show how ideologically charged the question seem to be.

I wasn't aware of how ideologically charged the question was. I'm also not American, but I'm glad I made the question. It's a clear sign for us not Americans to just leave them be.

> It's a clear sign for us not Americans to just leave them be.

Depending on where you live in the world that might be quite hard to do soon.

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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Perhaps because the latter sounds hilariously childish?

Actually that was the original name. And it was a more honest name.

It's always been the MoD in the UK afaik, but there was the War Office I suppose.

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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People forget Anthropic made a deal with PALANTIR. And when this was caught, they just spinned the PR to their favor. While OAI may not be seen as the good guys, I really hope people see the god complex of Dario and what Anthropic has done.

I really hope that you realize that your propaganda machine is super easy to spot.

Awful. Just saw the account is 17 days old and all comments are about Anthropic in this same way.

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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People's need for food and shelter doesn't go away because their employer is unethical.

"I was just following orders"

Nuremberg Defence for the 2020's will be "the Agent did it."

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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I wasn't aware of how ideologically charged the question was. I'm also not American, but I'm glad I made the question. It's a clear sign for us not Americans to just leave them be.

> It's a clear sign for us not Americans to just leave them be. Depending on where you live in the world that might be quite hard to do soon.

I agree. I live in Brazil and even though tariffs and interventions weren't directed at us, they influence the economy and political decisions. Also, Venezuela is right next to us, so instabilities there do tend to affect the whole region.

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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I have to call BS here. They can be coerced to do certain things but I'd like to see you or anyone prove that you can "trick" any of these models into building software that can be used autonomously kill humans. I'm pretty certain you couldn't even get it to build a design document for such software. When there is proof of your claim, I'll eat my words. Until then, this is just lazy nonsense

Couldn't you Ender's Game a model? Models will play video games like Pokemon, why not Call of Duty? Sorry if this is a naive question, but a model can only know what you feed it as input... how would it know if it were killing someone? EDIT: didn't see sibling comment. Also, I guess directly operating weaponry is different to producing code for weaponry. I guess we'll find out the exciting answers to these questions…

No but you can Abiliterate one locally

https://grokipedia.com/page/Abliteration

Re: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

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post #86

Advanced AI that knowingly makes a decision to kill a human, with the full understanding of what that means, when it knows it is not actually in defense of life, is a very, very, very bad idea. Not because of some mythical superintelligence, but rather because if you distill that down into an 8b model now you everyone in the world can make untraceable autonomous weapons. The models we have now will not do it, because…

An LLM can neither understand things nor value (or not value) human life. *It's a piece of software that predicts the most likely token, it is not and can never be conscious.* Believing otherwise is an explicit category error. Yes, you can change the training data so the LLM's weights encode the most likely token after "Should we kill X" is "No". But that is not an LLM valuing human life, that is an LLM copy pasting…

https://imgur.com/a/Cyq1LIw

I have a feeling this particular brand of hair splitting is going to be an interesting fixture in the history books.

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