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> DoW did probably did this because the government has existing contracts, and Anthropic will not perform to their requirements. The opposite: DoD did this bec

> 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 8mo 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 8mo 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...

anonymousiam 8mo 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 8mo 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...