Link: https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-strikes-a-deal-with-the-defense-department-to-deploy-its-ai-models-054441785.html?guccounter=1

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/technology/p/1826628/openai-strikes-a-deal-with-the-defense-department-to-deploy-its-ai-models

Sam Altman says "the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety."

Not 24 hours ago, he seemed to back Anthropic "supporting our warfighters" as long as two "red lines" weren't crossed, though his tepid support was laden with five instances of "I think" and one "mostly."

The two "red lines" in question:

• Domestic mass surveillance
  (presumably, foreign mass surveillance is ok)
• Autonomous weapons
  (likely because they would be held legally liable for misfires)

Oh boy…

Lest anybody come out from this multi-day mess with the presumption that Anthropic is the heroic party here, they're more like the Homelander to AI's Stormfront:

Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee

Some worried about privacy, others complained that conversations with the bot drowned out interactions between real humans. When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off, said he would not submit to mob rule, and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience, according to Discord logs and conversations with members of the group.

Leaked Slack Messages Show CEO of “Ethical AI” Startup Anthropic Saying It’s Okay to Benefit Dictators

“There is a truly giant amount of capital in the Middle East, easily $100B or more,” Amodei wrote in the Slack messages, as quoted by Wired.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei backs President Trump on AI policy, pushes back on criticism

Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan... We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race.

@XLE I really hate that it's called OpenAI