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Hegseth declares Anthropic a supply chain risk, restricting military contractors from doing business with AI giant (www.cbsnews.com)
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth deemed artificial intelligence firm Anthropic a supply chain risk on Friday, following days of increasingly heated public conflict with the AI company.

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[–] 23 points 8 months ago (6 children)

At the same time, they became a lot more palatable to the rest of the world and companies that want to avoid bad press / boycotts

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    The rest of the world is part of the global supply chain too. When it comes time to choose AI suppliers, companies will go "Uuh, maybe give Anthropic a skip just in case...", however palatable they may be.

    Anthropic's tech would have to be overwhelmingly better than its competitors for AI customers to ignore the risk of losing potential business due to the supply chain poisoning effect of the DoD's classification, and they're not that much better.

    That's the tragedy of the DoD's vile decision.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Not sure I care overly much about the fate of the amoral corporation getting fucked over by the fascist regime. They're both juggernauts, and I would love to see them damage each other.

    Remember, the falling out wasn't about the morality of the unsupervised spicy autocomplete killing people, it was about who had the liability when the AI went inevitably wrong. Had the DoD accepted the liability, I'm certain Anthropic would have sold the the stupidest version of skynet imaginable.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I'm on the fence about whether I agree with you because it's kind of a toss-up as to whether that's true in my mind. Put on the flip side of that, they were already neck deep in with the DoD anyway, so your argument is convincing, in that respect at least.

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