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>Though a variant of the last one may well have happened here, and the justification we read is just the one less damaging to everyone involved Hegseth was pla
by gibsonsmog 7mo ago
>Though a variant of the last one may well have happened here, and the justification we read is just the one less damaging to everyone involved
Hegseth was planning on getting the model via the Defense Production Act or killing Anthropic via supply chain risk classification preventing any other company working with the Pentagon from working with Anthropic. So while it wasn't Siberia, it was about as close as the US can get without declaring Claude a terrorist. Which I'm sure is on the table regardless
- addandsubtract 7mo agoAnd you know Claude will be on the hook for any bad "decision" the military makes. So this will end poorly for them, anyway.
- notanastronaut 7mo agoThis. Anthropic didn't really have a choice, at that point, short of killing its company and closing its doors ahead of time. "Pentagon officials said the Defense Department is planning to keep using Anthropic's tools, regardless of the company's wishes." NPR - Hegseth threatens to blacklist Anthropic over 'woke AI' concerns Clearly the threat to go to Grok was just a bluster, which says volumes about what the admin thinks of Grok vs Claude.
- mcmcmc 7mo agoSo this isn’t really capitalism then. Crony capitalism is closer to a planned economy then it is to a free market.