"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes big after OpenAI's latest move
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After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    Anthropic is still an incredibly evil company; always has been. And there’s no discernible difference between the OpenAI and Anthropic deals with the Trump administration.

    Here’s a list of things Anthropic was willing to do for Trump:

    • Mass surveillance of non-Americans
    • Targeted surveillance of Americans
    • Semi-autonomous bombings
    • Fully autonomous bombings… in the future
    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I don’t think it’s fair to take the two items they were fighting against, and warping around the details, as a statement of acceptance, especially given how Stinky Pete wouldn’t even budge on those two.

      Anthropic took a stand on a couple of guardrails, that you or I would consider to be very basic acceptable rules, but that the rest of their competition immediately lambasted, at the risk of their Pentagon contract, and even a national blacklisting that could completely take down their company. They lost, but at least they didn’t back down. And they are still at risk of being blackballed, because we live in a dictatorship where some fuckhead president can write whatever EO he wants without Congressional approval.

      I’m sure as fuck ain’t going to call Dario a hero, or ignore all of the shit Anthropic did to get this far. But, I am going to call out when a company and CEO sticks their neck out in front of a crazed axe-wielding executioner, in an environment where everybody else is cowering behind the curtains and closets.

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        If you aren’t familiar with his actual stance, you have been told a warped version of Warfighter Dario’s vision. I can’t blame you because the media is complicit, and everybody loves a story of good guy versus bad guy, but this is the reality:

        Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy. Fully autonomous weapons (those that take humans out of the loop entirely and automate selecting and engaging targets) may prove critical for our national defense. We have offered to work directly with the Department of War on R&D to improve the reliability of these systems.

        Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters.

        Dario Amodei, Warmonger

        Anthropic understands that the Department of War, not private companies, makes military decisions. We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.

        Dario Amodei, Just Following Orders

        • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          35 minutes ago

          I can’t blame you because the media is complicit, and everybody loves a story of good guy versus bad guy, but this is the reality:

          No, I acknowledge that the world is a helluva lot more nuanced than “AI bad, military bad, absolute stances good”. Absolutism is what we accuse our smooth-brained right-winged asshats of doing, so we certainly shouldn’t be caught doing the same thing.

          Partially autonomous weapons, like those used today in Ukraine, are vital to the defense of democracy.

          You mean drones? You’re talking about drones. What’s wrong with drones?

          We have never raised objections to particular military operations nor attempted to limit use of our technology in an ad hoc manner.

          They had a contract with the Pentagon. They literally deal with military operations on a regular basis.

          Hell, most of the pivotal technology developed in the last thousand years started as a military invention before civilian use. Including this internet thing you’re arguing on right now.