Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/statement-comments-secretary-war

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/957365

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truly a shame that more corporations aren’t willing to stand up against the people who are trying to overthrow democracy

It's pretty galling watching the US government retaliate against a company for not wanting to create Terminators or that surveillance thing from The Dark Knight for them.

It's blatantly retaliatory and a violation of the spirit of the law that allows that designation, and if the law is written well and the courts are honest then it would be illegal too. You shouldn't be able to lie and call a company an enemy of the state because they won't build you a Torment Nexus.

And I don't even want AI being used for half the things they already do.

Trump Admin: "Do illegal shit for us"

Anthropic: "Our lawyers are smarter than yours and we know we will win in court. Nice try dumbass."

The nice thing is, it makes it easy to identify anyone who doesn't publicly stay they won't do it now and get fired, if they don't do that, then they are absolutely selling their AI models and your data and privacy to trump without any safety or security restrictions as that drunk Hesgeth and Trump made clear this week.

Open ai? Gemeni? Not a peep from them about wanting to keep your rights safe and no complaints from Hesgeth means they sold your constitutional rights off.

OpenAI made a statement agreeing with Anthropic's "red lines". Google has yet to do the same, although there's been quite a lot of chatter from employees about it.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5758898-altman-backs-anthropic-pentagon-stand/

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/employees-at-google-and-openai-support-anthropics-pentagon-stand-in-open-letter/

This Pentagon has now indicated they're willing to abuse the "supply-chain risk" label for political reasons, casting doubt over all future, legitimate uses of the label.

That's a massive mistake and we're all far less safe because of it.

I'm glad Anthropic is holding a line here but stand up against might be a little strong. They just don't want to recreate ED209.

They’ve also indicated they’re willing to use the Defense Production Act to force you into slavery for political reasons. They didn’t pull the trigger on that here, but this is now a threat to any American company/employee.

Then they'll comply with some formal limitation.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7232927-how-do-i-cancel-my-chatgpt-subscription

FWIW we've already had total surveillance of Americans for a while. It's just through Palantir and many others, not Anthropic directly.

I love that you used a gif from Our Robocop Remake instead of the actual movie.