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This is awkward? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473
by jordanscales 7mo ago
This is awkward? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473
- BoiledCabbage 7mo agoSo they agreed to the exact same clauses that Anthropic put forward but with OpenAI instead? So it wasn't about those principles making them a supply chain risk? They're just trying to punish Anthropic for being the first ones to stand firm on those principles?
- yoyohello13 7mo agoI’m sure a big donor just used the US gov as a bludgeon to destroy their competition
- eclipticplane 7mo agoIs the big donor among us?
- yoyohello13 7mo agoNow that OpenAI is going to be used for mass domestic surveillance you can assume Sam Altman is always in the room.
- CamperBob2 7mo agoAs I understand it, Sam's cofounder at OpenAI donated $25 million to the Trump 2024 campaign. As Trump himself likes to say, "Promises made, promises kept."
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- Jensson 7mo agoAnthropic would probably not renegotiate in a year about the principles, while Sam Altman is known to be morally flexible so OpenAI will almost surely allow the military to do what they want in the future. Sam Altman might even have said behind closed doors that these restrictions will be removed once the drama has died down.
- small_model 7mo agoWhat principals do Anthropic have?, they happily build a product and acknowledge it will lead to the loss of millions of jobs, particularly SWE's first, but shrug and say 'nothing we can do, we just build the thing', that will kill a lot of people.
- hakrgrl 7mo ago[flagged]