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1. ApolloFortyNine · 1790356118 · focus · HN ↗

   I know everyone says this is political but it actually seems like a textbook designation. Anthropic wanted to have rules on how the military used AI, the military said no and therefore doesn't want anthropic used anywhere in their supply line.

   This is like a pen manufacturer not wanting their pens used to sign drone strike orders, now the military needs to have a special box of pens that don't have stipulations attached. With AI usage it would be the same thing except applied to entire product chains. It seems like it would just add more complexity to operations.

   You can agree with the rules anthropic wanted, but having rules set by a private company at all that apply to the military does seem fair for the military to object to.

   >The Department reasonably feared that Anthropic might manipulate Claude’s design to prevent it from performing national-security functions that the Department deems contractually authorized and necessary

   Though they'd probably put the DoD on the cybersecurity whitelist today, the very idea of the claude whitelists for certain functionality already exists and is being used by them today.

   1. throw310822 · 1790367944 · focus · HN ↗

      I don't get it, did the US government and military stop using Claude? I thought they were using it to choose objectives to bomb?

      1. Jtsummers · 1790371642 · focus · HN ↗

         To your first question, yes. To your second question, no. They used Grok for that, and it picked out a school to target.

         1. throw310822 · 1790451828 · focus · HN ↗

            > To your first question, yes

            No they didn't. They are still using Claude in places despite the fact that the 180 days limit for the transition has expired. This surfaced from the proceedings of the appeal itself, as well as from leaked source. A memo from the DoD authorises use of Claude past the 180 days term for reasons of national security (the rare case where national security is provided by a supply chain risk!)

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