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President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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Would love nothing more than for sama to refuse government contracts in solidarity. Free enterprise isn’t free

Idk who would even want them as a client. They'll change course on you every 4 years at minimum potentially in massive ways that might force you to change your product putting all your other users at risk - and they might just do that to you legislatively, anyway!

Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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Now you're worried? Come on. He is using the Bully Pulpit to try and pressure other companies to toeing the line. At least someone had the balls to tell them to get fucked instead of kowtowing.

He is also clearly in the throes of dementia, as his father was. It’s a common symptom of dementia patients to become rude and violent as their facilities slip away If only we had a constitutional process for removing presidents from office as they become obviously unfit for the office…

yes, but this is his administration; full stop neogestapo. Hes surrounded and politically floated by white Christian nationalists. His dementia just lubricates the existing harm vectors.

Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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post #69

I guess Sama is happy. Also I wonder what's happening with democracy in the US, with this level of presidential control to mess up everything, is US moving towards dictatorship?

The US will survive this, despite being damaged, because Trump and his team are incompetent and he’s in a bubble and no one tells him what is actually going on. The GOP is going to get crushed in the midterms. From that standpoint, Anthropic may simply be playing the long game, and playing it well.

Really hope so. Only concern is what desperate measures the Trump admin will be willing to employ to stop the midterms from giving Democrats control of Congress (or at least the House).

Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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Now will OpenAI have the same limits? LMAO at the US Government having to go with a Chinese open-source model...

I have a feeling they will end up going with grok.

They'll probably try, but the problem is everyone actually using these models knows Grok sucks: [0].

> Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing.

[0]: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai...?

Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a feeling they will end up going with grok.

They'll probably try, but the problem is everyone actually using these models knows Grok sucks: [0]. > Demand from other agencies to use Grok has been anemic, people familiar with the matter said, except in a few cases where people wanted to use it to mimic a bad actor for defensive testing. [0]: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/elon-musk-xai... ?

February 23, 2026: The Pentagon confirmed a new agreement allowing Grok use in classified systems. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced it would go live soon on unclassified and classified networks, alongside other models, as part of feeding military data into AI.

Elon mentioned they will be releasing a cli coding tool for grok similar to Claude Code, will be interesting to see how it performs given they have their own datacenter (largest in the world and building another larger one)

Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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I guess Sama is happy. Also I wonder what's happening with democracy in the US, with this level of presidential control to mess up everything, is US moving towards dictatorship?

You cant be serious. We are well past democracy and deep into fascism. Ask yourself, how many of the 14 points do you recognize? https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

Oh the US crossed that threshold the day he started he won the elections the second time. Most Americans seem to think new elections will solve it. But for germans it was a world war that brought back democracy. There were no elections anymore. That is also the most likely case for the US now.

Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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I guess Sama is happy. Also I wonder what's happening with democracy in the US, with this level of presidential control to mess up everything, is US moving towards dictatorship?

You cant be serious. We are well past democracy and deep into fascism. Ask yourself, how many of the 14 points do you recognize? https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html

Not saying that you are wrong. But even before Trump the US ticked like 10/14.

Re: President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems

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post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their statement called out automatic weapons targeting and domestic surveillance as two lines they would not cross

But.. we already have automatic weapons targeting systems and the PATRIOT act, which enjoys bi-partisan support already providing basically limitless domestic surveillance.

Doesn't mean Anthropic wants their tech making it even worse.
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