Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨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 his 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.

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