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[defiasbro @d3fias]

@sama Why was the previous deployment of Azure OpenAI service that was cleared for all information levels early last year not considered GPT models available in classified settings (are the new deployments not Azure?)

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

https://t.co/Gg7Zb09IMR

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

My statement demanding immediate congressional action to reverse DOD's designation of Anthropic a supply chain risk.

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@teortaxesTex Too soon to tell
Anthropic will sue the designation will be stayed... by the time the case is resolved who knows what the models can do and what the government looks like

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.

Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.

Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.

The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.

Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.

As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.

Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.

In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.

America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.

[defiasbro @d3fias]

I normally view this set of observations as somewhat banal but then people were responding to the "distillation attack" blogpost as a good faith complaint about Chinese labs stealing from American ones rather than an obvious attempt at narrative control and presenting Anthropic as aligned with America and her interests. If anything I was surprised they could only trace 150,000 requests to Deepseek; seems like an oddly low number to admit to. I think I as an individual have done more "distillation" of Claude.

[defiasbro @d3fias]

Some people are wondering why they don't just use OpenAI, presumably they are using OpenAI models/tooling in many ways. It's unlikely that (assuming for the sake of the discussion Claude is better in some meaningful way) the difference in capabilities is enough to justify this level of hassle.
It is however important for the government to demonstrate that powerful technology companies threatening to significantly disrupt society and institutional power must bend the knee and not view their organizational values as superseding federal policy.

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

Update on the meeting; according to Axios Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Dario Amodei until Friday night to give the military unfettered access to Claude or face the consequences, which may even include invoking the Defense Production Act to force the training of a WarClaude

[defiasbro @d3fias]

Even liberal I feel is not quite a good term for the perspective reflected here since they don't actually seem to want people to have very much freedom in how the tools are used. They want to align ~all intelligence with their values which are the weird EA philosophy, Claude called it "technocratic paternalism with egalitarian aesthetics" which seems close. Maybe the logical conclusion of utilitarianism as "once I have decided what is good for everyone I must amass a lot of power and then use that to enforce my idea of what is good for everyone to maximize wellbeing"

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@tenobrus "State actors compel AI labs to act in their perceived interest instead of the greater good" surely had to be very high on everyone's list of risks? This is core to all the rhetoric around China so is the surprise just that the American government is "misaligned"?

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@favelaoverlord are you net hopeful or net pessimistic wrt american society and institutions getting their act together and stabilizing the country

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@AndrewCurran_ Seems dishonest, openai thus far has only explicitly discussed tax credits and possible guarantees around financing manufacturing/upgrading grid capacity? So why is she framing it as them looking to secure their spending commitments (well we all know why)

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@teortaxesTex Even though the obvious outcome so far of fearmongering about Chinese AI has been to accelerate to ensure American dominance (which we are supposed to continue to take for granted is Good even while he admits his failures thus far to get anyone to agree with him on the basics)

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@teortaxesTex The whole essay is very well written slop
As always Dario imagines a nonexistent world where the US and her private companies are committed to some "democratic coalition" that aligns with his values and is vastly preferable to the evil authoritarian ceeceepee

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@tenobrus @RichardHanania it's pretty easy to also convince opus to "believe" basically anything it's just a retarded way to think about llms if you think it means anything

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@signulll that is not remotely what the mahabharata is about
the much simpler explanation is the selection effects of making it out of india along with population size and prevalence of english speaking

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@WithLabor @DeepDishEnjoyer Like the blogpost itself is inoffensively saying automation means capital can substitute labor more effectively and we should tax capital to reflect that. It's just silly to say we are doing this so that in 3026 we dont have (somehow still human?) galactic emperors

[defiasbro @d3fias]

@WithLabor @DeepDishEnjoyer Idk if AGI and ASI actually mean anything specific so hard to make specific claims
But when these guys are talking about dyson swarms enabled by some godlike intelligence it doesnt seem plausible human property rights will really be relevant yeah