So wait a second, the DoW let OpeAI put the exact same clauses in their contract, but Anthropic is a supply chain risk? What is going on?
An Anthropic spokeswoman added on Thursday that while the company received updated wording from the DoD for its contract on Wednesday night, it represented "virtually no progress on preventing Claude's use for mass surveillance of Americans or in fully autonomous weapons."
"New language framed as compromise was paired with legalese that would allow those safeguards to be disregarded at will," she said. "Despite [the Department of War's] recent public statements, these narrow safeguards have been the crux of our negotiations for months."
P.S I'm not political (no left/right drama), just speculative.
US F22 fighter jets have been spotted on Israeli airfields by Chinese commercial satellites in the past 3 days.
A full scale strike on Iran is imminent and they want to leverage LLMs for data analysis and quite possibly automated target selection.
Literally the SkyNet scenario both researchers and frickin pop culture have warned about for years.
Was it a subtly different contract, or a notice of dispute? Unclear.
Obviously Altman agreed to whatever they asked him and is lying that the DoW is cool about the red lines.
But the most obvious reason, is that Greg Brockman - who's a founder and also the current president of OpenAI apparently, is the largest donor to the Trump MAGA PAC. I find it hard to believe that Sam Altman and the Trump administration would be so obvious about it, but I also find it hard to believe that tens of millions in donations and this kind of result can be anything but a bribe.
I also believe that Anthropic's CEO just didn't get along with the DoW in negotiations. So much of these big contracts comes down to relationships.
Still pretty sleazy how the govt is being so aggressive about it. I wish they would have just denied the contract and picked another vendor.
We too have a voice here.
Do Not voluntarily fund the robot army.
Hell, this may open a path for Anthropic to survive. Everyone can save face if the Pentagon says "we got Anthropic to agree to the same terms as OpenAI" and Anthropic gets their guardrails anyways.
On the other hand it's equally likely that the government just destroys Anthropic regardless because they don't like it anymore (and it dared to disagree in public.)
So, use but if goes wrong, someone needs to be responsible. Aaaand we know that works very well
AI told me it was a Mexican drone, not a regular Delta El Paso flight
Step 1: We believe the enemy is a monster who does [terrible act].
Step 2: To counteract this, we must do [terrible act].
Result: we maintain we are the "good guys" because we were "forced" into it by their presumed behavior.
He who fights with imagined monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
That quote is 140 years old. Is that enough time to heed it?
Ethics dont exist on the global stage. The privacy ship sailed decades ago. It all looks performative to me across all sides.
The smart move is to side with gov using some hand wave jutsi about “we have a contract” to get access to sams big nuts. Sam aint gonna respect no contract regardless of what is in. He breaks all laws without consequence for the last 60 odd years.
Unless people start starving, no revolution is gonna change the status quo here. It is like 9D marketing/branding chess for ai companies
The whole, if u are not against them ur for them, argument scares me as so much more bad comes from it.
I am honest. I remember all the crypto validators buckling to sam when pressure came over sanctions. Same happened back with land lines, cell networks, and now AI too. All governments do this.
I dont like it. I dont want it. I vote against it. And it still happens. So i shrug as once again the same thing happens.
