Amazon invested $8 billion in Anthropic.
Anthropic’s biggest investor.
Amazon researchers jailbroke Fable 5.
Then Andy Jassy personally called the White House Thursday night.
By Friday at 5:20pm Anthropic got a letter.
Models shut down by Friday evening.
At least five other companies also called senior administration officials Thursday and Friday morning. 
The security expert Anthropic shared the report with said the jailbreak was researchers asking questions defenders would normally ask AI.
Called the government response “way out of line with what’s actually in the research report.” 
Amazon sells competing AI models.
Amazon invested in Anthropic.
Amazon jailbroke Anthropic’s model.
Amazon called the White House.
Anthropic got shut down.
Amazon’s models were not affected.
The administration said other models don’t pose a national security threat.
Amazon sells those models.
This is the cleanest conflict of interest in Silicon Valley history.
And it happened in 48 hours.
The engineers who trained Fable 5. the researchers who red-teamed it for thousands of hours. the safety team that designed the guardrails. the people who wrote the code that the government says is too dangerous.
barred by export control. because they are foreign nationals.
Anthropic is a San Francisco AI safety company. it was founded by former OpenAI researchers from all over the world. its workforce is international by design. "a huge percentage" of employees according to Dario Amodei himself.
Now cannot access the product they built.
I still am struggling to wrap my head around the fact this is actually happening…
Don’t care what your political views are, EVERYONE should be absolutely embarrassed & ashamed that this is happening at the Lincoln Memorial & White House. What a joke.
@booedonstage1@SupremeTyrell@YesJulz I never said Bron didn’t earn any of his wealth or work hard. Im a Bron fan. Saying he earned a billion dollars through hard work alone just isn’t true. Risk is great but not the same thing as hard work.
When did I say workers should get paid as much as the creator?
1. That isn’t my whole argument. They are lending their name to pre established empires and benefiting that isn’t their hard work. 2. A lot of those workers are not being paid a living wage so while technically no. They aren’t being paid the value of their work but that a problem with the system.