The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic

(twitter.com)

35 points | by doener 2 days ago

7 comments

  • andsoitis 2 days ago
    >The ask is simple: let us use your models for anything that's technically legal.

    > Weapons development, intelligence collection, battlefield operations, mass surveillance of American citizens.

    > OpenAI said yes.

    > Google said yes.

    > xAI said yes.

    > Anthropic said no.

    Is that accurate? Did all the labs, other than Anthropic, say yes to allowing their models to be used for weapons development and mass surveillance of Americans?

    Or is the poster overlooking some nuance?

  • jaybrendansmith 2 days ago
    Ironic that it is Anthropic that is actually focused on the thing that OpenAI was founded on ... safety.
  • MrCoffee7 2 days ago
    The Claude chatbot for the general public won't even answer questions related to military AI. It won't even answer questions like if there are any dual use papers among a group of new AI research paper listings that might be of concern from an AI safety viewpoint.
  • ChrisArchitect 2 days ago
  • roncesvalles 2 days ago
    Anthropic has been killing it with the marketing recently. Wouldn't put it past them for this to be one more brand campaign.
  • xyzsparetimexyz 2 days ago
    100% AI slop tweet. Probably real news, but it you actually care about getting people to care then you can't be slopping out writing like this.
    • queenkjuul 2 days ago
      I think you're right. Called into question the whole story for me until i saw the WSJ link