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I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by lavezzi »

lukewrites wrote: post #6

I admire Anthropic for sticking to their principles, even if it affects the bottom line. That’s the kind of company you want to work for.

> 83 people in total killed in US attack to abduct President Nicolas Maduro

Blood is on their hands already

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

getpokedagain wrote: post #213

Why does everyone associated with this administration sound like a 17 year old who got dumped when they post on twitter.

Because this administration is entirely composed of those same 17 year olds, older but not any more mature.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by QuiEgo »

lukewrites wrote: post #6

I admire Anthropic for sticking to their principles, even if it affects the bottom line. That’s the kind of company you want to work for.

Companies change (remember "don't be evil"?) but yeah for the Anthropic of today, respect.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by Rudybega »

trelane wrote: post #269

https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2027500334999081294 It is an interesting point. What's the difference between this use license and others?

Then the government should end their contract with Anthropic. The terms of the contract were clear.

Designating them a supply chain risk is unprecedented authoritarian strong-arming.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

cobolcomesback wrote: post #326
nickysielicki wrote: post #237

This could kill Anthropic. The designation says any contractor, supplier, or partner doing business with the US military can’t conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Well, AWS has JWCC. Microsoft has Azure Government. Google has DoD contracts. If that language is enforced broadly, then Claude gets kicked off Bedrock, Vertex, and potentially Azure… which is where all the enterprise revenue lives. Claude canno…

None of the hyper scalers are going to stop offering Claude. All of the big 3 have invested billions of dollars into Anthropic, and have tens (if not hundreds) of billions more tied up in funding deals with them. Amazon and Google are two of the largest shareholders of Anthropic. Anthropic is going to be fine. The DoD is going to walk this back and pretend it never happened to save face.

I would find that a lot more plausible if people had not spent the past week giving me similar arguments, in precisely the same tone, for why this was an empty threat and would never happen in the first place. If Amazon and Google do not either bow down or immediately join a business coalition to get Trump out of power, Hegseth will be even happier to get an opportunity to prove his power by destroying them. Trump either doesn't want to stop him or has become too senile to stop him.

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Post by nemo44x »

A level up, this is only the beginning of the political headwinds for AI. There will be a lot more, especially if constituencies begin to get displaced. I don’t think “job loss” will really occur, at least not in a dramatic way overnight. But I do believe there will be both aggressive regulation and very aggressive taxation of this technology in the near/mid-term.

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by hobs »

zmgsabst wrote: post #500
j2kun wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a waste of your effort to apply rational argument to the actions of a group that are in it for a shakedown.

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I like how you use the phrase social responsibilities to mean doing whatever the DoD wants which includes spying on the American people and operating autonomous drones to kill people. It's like saying they have social responsibilities to enable murder for people who have been shown to be unthinking murderers justifying the most pointless murders because they think it makes "their side" winners.

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Post by delaminator »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #390
baxtr wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can someone in plain terms explain what this is really about? Anyone can use Claude afaik?

> Can someone in plain terms explain what this is really about? This administration built almost entirely of dunces and conmen has convinced itself/been convinced that chatbots will help them in deciding where to send nukes, and/or they are invested in the incredibly over-leveraged companies engaged in the AI-boom and stand to profit directly by siphoning taxpayer dollars to said companies. My money is on the latter…

> If this shit was going down in France

your view of France is severely outdated

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Post by Avamander »

RivieraKid wrote: post #495
mikepurvis wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also a very clear differentiator for them relative to Google, Facebook, and OpenAI, all of whom are clearly varying degrees of willing to sell themselves out for evil purposes.

Is making effective weapons evil?

Yes?

Re: I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

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Post by garbawarb »

zmgsabst wrote: post #500
j2kun wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a waste of your effort to apply rational argument to the actions of a group that are in it for a shakedown.

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Are they legally required to agree to a new contract? Which law says this?
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