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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WILL NEVER ALLOW A RADICAL LEFT, WOKE COMPANY TO DICTATE HOW OUR GREAT MILITARY FIGHTS AND WINS WARS! That decision belongs to YOUR COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF, and the tremendous leaders I appoint to run our Military.

The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the Department of War, and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution. Their selfishness is putting AMERICAN LIVES at risk, our Troops in danger, and our National Security in JEOPARDY.

Therefore, I am directing EVERY Federal Agency in the United States Government to IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology. We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again! There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.

WE will decide the fate of our Country — NOT some out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

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[–] 333 points 8 months ago* (12 children)

So they signed a contract, decided they don't like the terms, now they're trying to extort Anthropic and gaslighting to claim Anthropic is strong arming them?

I fucking hate this administration man.

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  • [–] 120 points 8 months ago* (10 children)

    Anthropic took a stance against their AI in weapons and battlefield management systems. The government wants that ability and therefore chose to ban Anthropic as a supplier for government systems.

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  • [–] 118 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    Yes but they already signed a contract WITH the safety limits in place.

    I get that obviously they would want them removed, bit that is not what they signed.

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

    He doesn't say anything about breaking a signed contract. Simply that Anthropic will be phased out and no longer used by the government.

    As a corollary, I doubt Anthropic's contract will be renewed when the current one expires.

    Edit: Grammar

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    They deemed them a supply chain vulnerability.

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

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  • [–] 29 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    No, they declared them a supply chain vulnerability and that all companies that do business with the DoD are forbidden from doing business with Anthropic.

    What that means in terms of AWS and Google Cloud being DoD contractors and being used to serve Anthropic’s models is still unclear. Potentially this means they can’t.

    This is not just justification, this was extortion, and now is them doing their best to destroy this company for standing up to them.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Depends on how long the contract is, and who the administration is when that happens.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    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?

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

    IMMEDIATELY CEASE all use of Anthropic’s technology

    There will be a Six Month phase out period

    What a fucking moron.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    He used Claude to write this. Also, it's a false flag, Anthropic will still snitch on you.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    I don't think that's what ya mean with "false flag", that's a little specific (could also be me missing your point of course).

    But hard agree. Even despite this, it looks good, sure - but let time earn trust, it will find it if there's any to be found.

    Until then - nonetheless, I say reward the moves that look like "we don't need you", to fascists. It ain't much but it's something.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Don't think it's a false flag, he's personally pissed at them and they're losing their juicy contract to ClosedAI.

    Doesn't change the fact that they're an American corporation and will absolutely snitch on you though.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Most probably what went on was...
    DoW decided to go with OpenAI for military stuff and Anthropic for covert surveillance.
    So they are now giving a PR boost to Anthropic, to increase market permeation and increase their short term effectiveness.

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  • [–] 141 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I'm just so tired of seeing 1984 and Brazil and Idiocracy and every other political warning and satire played out in the real world every goddamn day of my life

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

    Time for some V For Vendetta me thinks.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah. A good thick slice of Anarchism might be what we need to reset things.

    That is Anarchism, with capital "A", the anti-authority ideology.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Where did they mention wanton violence? That's not what anarchism is, and that's also not what's portrayed in V for Vendetta.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    been awhile since i watched V for Vendetta, i remember it as basically just The Purge with accents and a little more monologuing

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    You should give it another viewing. There's violence, but it's not just random murder for its own sake like in The Purge. The protagonist carries out a series of targeted assassinations against people who were involved in detaining and experimenting on him in a concentration camp, and blows up a couple of empty buildings at the beginning and end of the movie in a symbolic act of defiance against a fascist regime. There's a bit towards the end where he ships a bunch of guy fawkes masks to everyone and there's some robbing and looting, but no killing until a secret police guy shoots an unarmed child in the street and some people jump him. The plot overall is about people rising up against and toppling a fascist regime, which is pretty relevant to current events.

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  • [–] 67 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow.

    Anthropic yesterday:

    Should the Department choose to offboard Anthropic, we will work to enable a smooth transition to another provider, avoiding any disruption to ongoing military planning, operations, or other critical missions. Our models will be available on the expansive terms we have proposed for as long as required. -Dario's Post

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  • [–] 40 points 8 months ago

    "We'll do X for you."

    "YOU'D BETTER DO X OR YOU'LL BE SORRY!"

    "...Yes, as we said, we'll do X."

    "HA! I WIN! I BEAT YOU LOSERS AND NOW YOU'RE DOING WHAT I TOLDED YOU TO! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!"

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    How can anyone read this shit and not cringe?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

    Trump supporters who wear Trump that bitch shirts proudly

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    Because it's a fucking cult and Trump's word is about as good as fucking Moses'.

    You ever see how he wrote the ten commandments? Exact same emphasis.

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  • [–] 89 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago* (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    "pedophile Donald J Trump yells at the cloud"

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago

    A spoiled brat writing a angry letter to santa saying his parents don't let him do stupid things.

    Only it's the elected US President.

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  • [–] 63 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    How are Anthropic left wing? I thought they were regarded as being not much better than ChatGPT?

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

    everything 47 personally doesn't like is lunatic left. AOC? lunatic left. eating his broccoli? lunatic left. when his phone runs out of battery mid toilet tantrum? lunatic left

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Two of the Supreme Court Justices he appointed? Believe it or not, lunatic left.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    see, you get it. Melania doesn't do blowies anymore? lunatic left. representative Massey from Kentucky? lunatic left. his doctor telling him he shouldn't have more than one vitaball in a day? lunatic left

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    They said something once and now Trumpet is upset.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder what kicked the tantrum off.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    They are standing firm on two very reasonable AI guardrails that the Pentagon wants removed.

    Anthropic has drawn two red lines: no mass surveillance of Americans and no fully autonomous weapons.

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/anthropics-safety-first-ai-collides-with-the-pentagon-as-claude-expands-into/

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago*

    Oddly enough this positions Anthropic as the sole big player in the (seriously disastrously) complicit landscape of roughly ALL large tech I'm aware of, to say nothing of AI, willing to refuse, and do so publicly, over something that matters, while that thing invites big $$$.

    I hate to say this, but this really should be (tentatively, but ideally dramatically) rewarded.

    Like a large scared dog, on a leash, in a yard with a bunch of even bigger ones. Ones with leashes held by something permanently unreliable, and all the dogs know it.

    And Anthropic is the only one that does the "play bow". And we don't get to leave the yard.

    What we do get is bad, and big, choices to be made.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago

    Maybe i should give Claude a try, thanks for recommendation pedo j. trump

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    [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    Serve Skynet or die... you traitorous scum, is exactly how Skynet gets started and ends.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago

    Good, let the nutjobs fight

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    What a fucking snowflake. Cry harder, bitch.

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  • [–] 50 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    HE IS A DEMENTED RAPIST CONMAN

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This just in: toddler throws tantrum because someone took his toys away

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

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

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Feel like elaborating any? Looks like pretty over-the-top satire at a glance, but I'd always rather hear from people than read docs, "search things up" (for fuck's sake lol), etc.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Well that settles it then, guess we'll just have grok manage the nuclear arsenal

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    lol these statuses always read like trembling balled up fists on a fat angry toddler

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    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)

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    When the AI company only wants to be 99% Hitler (They're okay with their bot recommending bombing minorities overseas, but they don't want to be held liable when it pushes the button and the bomb comes down in America instead)

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Still. I will happily take a company with some moral fiber over one with none when it comes to this AI race to the bottom.

    Not saying Anthropic are the good guys here (there are none IMHO) but they are clearly trying to be the "less bad guys".

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Reports of Anthropic's moral fiber have been greatly exaggerated:

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    I wouldn't want to hand it to Anthropic, but compared to the flagrant criminality of Trump it's basically impossible to not do so.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    What AI to use for murder automation probably shouldn't be at the whim of a guy that can probably barely work a TV remote.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago

    This is literally impossible to parody. If I had been asked to write an unrealistically over-the-top demented version of whatever I might imagine Trump would have written to convey this, I couldn't have got close.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Ethics might be contagious, better not take the risk.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This man is literally insane.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago*

    Nah. He just has a very high willingness to lie or misrepresent anything. Like, no regard for reputation or consistency or anything. He'll make entirely-contradictory statements depending upon occasion. If he thinks that it will buy the slightest iota of political oomph to say that Anthropic is violating the Constitution, he'll do so, even if he doesn't have the slightest grounds to make that statement.

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