Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

• Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean they praised the Trump administration for benefiting their business, which is… fair? I guess?

  If you do ask Claude Sonnet 4.6 about Trump it leans quite negative, as it should.

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I missed when sucking up to the Trump administration and echoing Cold War style nationalism was “fair”. If that’s the case, OpenAI’s behavior is fair.

    Fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R\&D to improve the reliability of these systems.

    Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters

    Dario “Warfighter” Amodei

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    • Vlyn@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I missed when sucking up to the Trump administration and echoing Cold War style nationalism was “fair”. If that’s the case, OpenAI’s behavior is fair.

      It’s just capitalism. Anthropic pushed against the administration and now they are about to be branded as “supply chain risk”. OpenAI bent over and are going to get billions in funding that they sorely need (and hopefully don’t get, let them fail).

      You miss the mark though: Anthropic only praised the administration, but that’s just words to give the Twitter pedo in chief a pat on the head. OpenAI actually signed a contract and they are providing their service. Massive difference.

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      • XLE@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        They both signed the contract. They both allegedly hold the exact same set of red lines. One of them just gets to pretend to be the virtuous company with the virtuous capitalist CEO, despite showing tons of red flags that should have you scrambling to be as concerned about them as OpenAI.

        • Mass surveillance of non-Americans
        • Targeted surveillance of Americans
        • Semi-autonomous bombings
        • Fully autonomous bombings… in the future

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• Hackworth@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They insisted Claude was human?

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  • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Sorry, not quite, but close. From 404 media

    When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group.

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    • Hackworth@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh, that guy! To be fair, that’s one employee, not Anthropic’s actions or position. You mentioned forcing their software on minorities while insisting it was better than it was, and I was getting OLPC flashbacks. But Anthropic looking for funding in the UAE and Qatar is shitty. I can’t seem to find anything about whether or not they went through with those contracts.

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      • XLE@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Jason Clinton is Anthropic’s Deputy Chief Information Security Officer. He’s not just some guy.

        This means that Jason knew better, and he was using his position as a moderator (and supposedly a security expert) to try gaslighting a vulnerable minority into believing his favorite toy was “secure” when it was not.

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