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DoW did probably did this because the government has existing contracts, and Anthropic will not perform to their requirements. It's a way for the government to

DoW did probably did this because the government has existing contracts, and Anthropic will not perform to their requirements. It's a way for the government to invalidate the contracts, and avoid the problem in the future. Given that the Anthropic announcement of their policy update to their AI being used in they way it was already being used happened less than two weeks ago, how could the government have had a right of refusal at the time the contracts were issued (probably years ago)?

ImPostingOnHN 7mo ago
> DoW did probably did this because the government has existing contracts, and Anthropic will not perform to their requirements. The opposite: DoD did this because Anthropic was performing to the contract (which codified the restrictions in question), and the government was violating the contract, and sought to violate it more. > Given that the Anthropic announcement of their policy update to their AI being used in they way it was already being used happened less than two weeks ago The policy excluding use of Anthropic's Claude service for domestic mass surveillance of civilians and fully-autonomous killbots is at least a year old, and codified in the contract terms the government signed back then. After the signing, the government decided they wanted domestic mass surveillance of civilians and fully-autonomous killbots, and thus regretted their agreement to those contract terms, and thus is now unilaterally cancelling their agreement. Simple as that.
- anonymousiam 7mo ago
  I compared their original policy, which DoW was not violating, against their revised policy from less than two weeks ago, which they released after unfruitful negotiations with DoW. They don't say the same thing.
  - ImPostingOnHN 7mo ago
    Then you compared the wrong things. Mass domestic surveillance of civilians and fully-autonomous killbots were excluded from the contract signed about a year ago. That is why the DoD sought to force anthropic to modify the contract to include those 2 things, with no other changes. Even though the terms of the contract prevail over the general public Terms Of Use, one can look at the general public TOU from before the contract was signed [0] and see that it explicitly forbade mass domestic surveillance of civilians: "Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Censorship or Surveillance Purposes" Pretty cut and dry, if we're going by the TOU. 0: https://web.archive.org/web/20250501151043/https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup https://web.archive.org/web/20250501151043/https://www.anthr...

ImPostingOnHN 7mo ago

> DoW did probably did this because the government has existing contracts, and Anthropic will not perform to their requirements. The opposite: DoD did this because Anthropic was performing to the contract (which codified the restrictions in question), and the government was violating the contract, and sought to violate it more. > Given that the Anthropic announcement of their policy update to their AI being used in they way it was already being used happened less than two weeks ago The policy excluding use of Anthropic's Claude service for domestic mass surveillance of civilians and fully-autonomous killbots is at least a year old, and codified in the contract terms the government signed back then. After the signing, the government decided they wanted domestic mass surveillance of civilians and fully-autonomous killbots, and thus regretted their agreement to those contract terms, and thus is now unilaterally cancelling their agreement. Simple as that.

anonymousiam 7mo ago
I compared their original policy, which DoW was not violating, against their revised policy from less than two weeks ago, which they released after unfruitful negotiations with DoW. They don't say the same thing.
- ImPostingOnHN 7mo ago
  Then you compared the wrong things. Mass domestic surveillance of civilians and fully-autonomous killbots were excluded from the contract signed about a year ago. That is why the DoD sought to force anthropic to modify the contract to include those 2 things, with no other changes. Even though the terms of the contract prevail over the general public Terms Of Use, one can look at the general public TOU from before the contract was signed [0] and see that it explicitly forbade mass domestic surveillance of civilians: "Do Not Use for Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Censorship or Surveillance Purposes" Pretty cut and dry, if we're going by the TOU. 0: https://web.archive.org/web/20250501151043/https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup https://web.archive.org/web/20250501151043/https://www.anthr...