Google has been doing the same thing for longer than Anthropic[0]. To protect their models from distillation attacks, they silently will downgrade the model's p

Google has been doing the same thing for longer than Anthropic[0]. To protect their models from distillation attacks, they silently will downgrade the model's performance to essentially poison your training data without your knowledge. A bit different than Anthropic refusing to assist with any AI development at all, but it's in the same vein and seems not widely known. edit: reading the whole series of Google's AI Threat Tracker articles also provides some insight into threats Anthropic and others are dealing with [0] https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/distillation-experimentation-integration-ai-adversarial-use#:~:text=Google%20continuously%20detects%2C%20disrupts%2C%20and%20mitigates%20model%20extraction%20activity%20to%20protect%20proprietary%20logic%20and%20specialized%20training%20data%2C%20including%20with%20real%2Dtime%20proactive%20defenses%20that%20can%20degrade%20student%20model%20performance. https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dis...