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Let me rephrase this. Anthropic played a really well orchestrated marketing gimmick so that they would be in the headlines for a couple days bringing awareness
by siren2026 5mo ago
Let me rephrase this.
Anthropic played a really well orchestrated marketing gimmick so that they would be in the headlines for a couple days bringing awareness to non-tech people on how they are supposedly the good guys. They then backpedaled all of this and are in contract with the DoD once the headlines passed.
But this obviously worked as you now believe they are the good guys
- solenoid0937 5mo agoThey didn't backpedal at all, you're spreading FUD. Their red lines are still in place. They are the only AI company with those red lines.
- siren2026 5mo agoAh yes, right [1] https://www.obsolete.pub/p/exclusive-anthropic-is-quietly-backpedalling https://www.obsolete.pub/p/exclusive-anthropic-is-quietly-ba... [2] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-pol... [3] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-dials-back-ai-safety-commitments-38257540 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-dials-back-ai-safety-c...
- albumen 5mo agoThose sources don’t claim Anthropic is crossing its red lines (AI-controlled weapons and mass domestic surveillance of American citizens).
- solenoid0937 5mo agoYou didn't read your own sources. The red lines are still in place.
- siren2026 5mo agoOh I read them. If I had to bet I follow this more closely than you do. Some redlines are still in place. Not the same ones and it is very clear based on this precedent that red lines can be moved at any times whenever it is convenient for Anthropic as shown by the above articles. So as I said, all a marketing gimmick.
- solenoid0937 5mo agoPlease quote exactly where the two red lines (autonomous robotic killbots on current-day models, domestic mass surveillance) have been lifted.
- siren2026 5mo agoWhy did you suddenly decide those two red lines were the important ones? The above article shows clearly they walked back and backpedalled any red lines if any other competing models release them before Anthropic, which is an opt-out for ANY redlines anyways.
- solenoid0937 5mo agoThose were literally the only two red lines they had.