The US is an embarrassment.

You forgot wargames

"we programmed the AI leopards to not eat our faces"

And Anthropic refused? Surely they must be the evil ones!

They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability.

That’s not the same as choosing not to renew a contract.

Um.....Anthropic is still a bad company, just not as bad as the rest. Haha

Moral absolutism benefits only the status-quo.

It's way past time to stop letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Anthrorphic told the orange baby and his bully brigade "no." That'd be worth $20 bucks to me if they were Nestle.

Oh. Didn't realize the contracts were just 6 months long. I thought they were more like 10 years or something.

that's my president, he tells it like it is!

Trump supporters who wear Trump that bitch shirts proudly

Oh, I am not saying they're not still opportunistic money-chasers. Hence the comment about there not being any good AI companies. To me though, their reluctance on some topics and honest admissions on the capabilities of their AI make it appear that they less happy to throw all principals overboard in the race to win the AI market than the likes of Google, Microsoft, and Musk.

It's also just reasons they vote and support him

You must bend the knee to Pedolini

It’s crazy how not only ethics but now safety is “radically left”

Trump and Hegseth tried two different things simultaneously. They tried to deem Anthropic both a hostile actor, which would cut all DoD contracts off completely, and then also tried to declare them essential and force them to ignore the safety limits set forth in the contract, which is the supply chain thing.

So yeah, the incompetence is showing as it always is.

Fair point.
I wish all the AI companies would go belly up, but that is not realistic at this point

He doesn't say anything about breaking a signed contract

Ofc he wouldn't say that, especially if it's true LOL

I know which AI chatbot to use now. Thank you Donald!

Trick question. The answer is none of them

He is like a spoiled child, just like his shitstain cabinet. I wish there were some way we could identify those who voted for him in 2016, 2020, or 2024 and tattoo an orange T on their foreheads so they could never go anywhere again without ridicule and harassment.

I love how he thinks capitalising a word gives it some kind of magical authority.

or I will use the Full Power (TM) of the Presidency (LLC)

America hasn't won a war (or conflict even) since WW2.

He's a man shaped entity with the brain of a dementia riddled geriatric because that's exactly what he is. That man has so many health conditions the only reason he's not dead is they're fighting over who gets to kill him.

that as the case may be, sending signals is still good. you don’t have to continue for very long, but a flood of support after making a moral decision will make it more likely that they, and others will make similar decisions in the future

the worst thing would be for google for example to see the fallout from this and think “well we don’t want to be them! better start building autonomous weapons”

This is the kind of stuff I think about whenever a Democrat tries to tell me that Biden or Obama were powerless.

They could have done this to the makers of assault rifles in order to spur greater regulation in the wake of mass shootings. After all, they're certainly contracted with various federal entities.

That is, if they gave a shit.

Not sure if you're anti-AI or something, but I intend to use chatbots.
To me, it is now like this: local > claude > everything else

The absurdity to claim that Anthropic is strong-arming the DoD and forcing them to do anything when just the other day it was reported that the DoD was threatening this exact action if Anthropic didn't comply with their demands is laughable.

It feels like a pretty low bar to clear to tell this orange fuck to piss off, but at least one of the AI companies has a spine.

I wonder if Trump would allow copyright claims against anthropic now

Seriously, we need to convince him that all of the AI companies are saying mean things about him. Then maybe we might be able to afford RAM.

IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology

There will be a Six Month phase out period

What a fucking moron.

This is exactly what he did with every single trade deal he spent the last year working on. It's a pattern of behavior.

And basically why we're where we are with Iran.

Talk in other comment sections suggests this means Nvidia (or AMD, or Cerebras, or Intel or anyone) can’t legally supply Anthropic with hardware.

So it effectively kills Anthropic? And that would sink the stock market.

As at the other extreme, a lot of Big Tech (like Palantir) is heavily reliant on Anthropic, which would unsettle the oligarchs and likely force Trump to walk back.

I don’t know if this is true, but this does smell like one of Trumps many “unenforceable tweets”

Anthropic is self righteous and self serving.

Like, I like local LLMs more than most, and Anthropic models are great at the moment, but don’t mistake Anthropic for having a spine.

The funniest and dumbest part of this is how he doesn't want the "radical left AI making military decisions..... When what he was pissed about is the denial of anthropic in making the final military decision to launch missiles and fire weapons to kill.

So he's pissed at what was allowed, and he's pissed at what wasn't allowed?

That’s basically always been the case anyway, except for Gemini for long context, perhaps.

And, of couse, prioritize open models over API. It’s:

Open training models > open weights models > restrictively licensed open models > open weights models over API > Claude/Gemini

Every day I am more astounded that anyone voted for this absolute moron.

Even by Trump's standards it seems quite unhinged, indeed. Sounds bat shit crazy, tbh.

They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability.

This is the justification for phasing them out and (presumably) not renewing the contract. Happens all the time. Usually with less angry internet posts and more quiet paper pushing.

It's one of the reasons DoD things can be expensive. DoD contractors aren't allowed to use the cheap Chinese supplier, for example.

wanton violence doesn't really work, this has been tried before. you need precise and well thought out violence. last i bothered to check, something like 70-80% of the $ behind far-right america comes from like <20 people (<100 if you extrapolate that out to the world).

They're not reading but looking for keywords. People with low literacy do that.

Republicans used to be against governments that told businesses how they should be run. 🙄

I'm betting this ends with Amthropic somehow giving him money.

You forgot Pedo and Felon... not that anyone cares. Honestly at this point he could sign his emails with that list and people would still vote him in and back him.

Grok will end up with the contract. Even with their back and forth relationship, there's no way Elon doesn't love this outcome and capitalize on it.

If they weren't guzzling the worlds water supply, and using the electricity of a small nation, and didn't steal small creators works, and weren't hijacking the worlds supply of RAM, and wasn't causing a bubble that will wreak havoc on the global economy, and it wasn't causing people to go into psychosis by encouraging delusional thoughts, than i probably wouldn't be against it.

Other than those issues it seems fine, but until those are addressed, I'm pretty anti-ai

I mean... this is losing them a 200 million dollar contract. And to one of their competitors who will gladly acquiesce, so it's hard to argue that this benefits them.

Good marketing to a bunch of left-wing people who hate AI, I guess, but that feels like Elon joining the Trump administration in hopes of selling Teslas to rednecks, it might work on a few, but I just can't imagine this is 4D chess that will make them a fortune when they're abandoning that much money immediately.

Their statement also came after the DOW threatened to put them on the list of companies that are totally banned from doing any business in America, usually reserved for Chinese companies that are deemed a national security threat, which would make it illegal for any company doing business in America to do any business with them, as they'd be added to the same list, which would have essentially killed Anthropic as a business entirely.

You don't have to love Anthropic because they did a good thing, they were fine with anything less than automatic killing and mass surveillance, after all, but I don't think it's correct to say this was sneaky and spineless somehow.

Unfortunately, I'm not surprised in the least.

During his first term, he wasn't nearly as unhinged as he was during this term, because he was still building his cult, which he continued doing after he lost the 2020 election. With the 2024 election, virtually everything lined up in his favor. The Democratic candidate was somebody who had not even been in the primaries, the size of his cult was at an all-time high, and the political division was even further increased from 2016. Even with all that in his favor, he still didn't show his most unhinged ideas until after the election.

Anybody with a reasonable amount of intelligence would obviously have voted against him, but forward thinking doesn't seem to be a common trait these days.

Eh, the context I was thinking of is that they are constantly playing “safety theatre” where it absolutely doesn’t matter. They’ve tried to kill open models and basically capture regulators by misleading or outright lying, for their benefit.

In other words, this is a case of “a broken clock is right sometimes,” and I think they knew Trump will back down.

Fair, I definitely haven't simped for them in the past just because they post some good articles on AI safety.

Although... I'll say of them, they seem more like what OpenAI should be, actually trying to implement AI responsibly, and freely sharing that information. It's good research, even if marketing is the motivation. Meanwhile OpenAI, the "charity" that's supposed to guide us to a responsible AI future, moved their most addictive and mentally dangerous model to the highest paid tier instead of actually killing it until very recently.

Although at the end of the day, Anthropic is a for-profit company, in a better world they wouldn't have released models publicly before this research was actually done and pressing dangers like AI psychosis were actually safeguarded against. Better late than never, sure, but the whole industry has done a lot of damage already, and the work of resolving the issues still isn't even close to done.

Add a comma and I might wear it.

Dude, this just gave Anthropic so much credibility. They can literally own the entire AI market now.