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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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223 points mindingnever | 7 comments | 17 Sep 25 17:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.003s | source | bottom
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chatmasta ◴[17 Sep 25 19:05 UTC] No.45280014[source]▶
Are government agencies sending prompts to model inference APIs on remote servers? Or are they running the models in their own environment?

It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation (EDIT: they’re a US corp), would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers. Or are they baking the restrictions into the model weights?

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jjice ◴[17 Sep 25 19:08 UTC] No.45280070[source]▶
> It’s worrying to me that Anthropic, a foreign corporation, would even have the visibility necessary to enforce usage restrictions on US government customers.

"Foreign" to who? I interpretted your comment as foreign to the US government (please correct me if I'm wrong) and I was confused because Anthropic is a US company.

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1. chatmasta ◴[17 Sep 25 19:09 UTC] No.45280079[source]▶
Ah my mistake. I thought they were French. I got them confused with Mistral.

The concern remains even if it’s a US corporation though (not government owned servers).

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2. jjice ◴[17 Sep 25 19:10 UTC] No.45280101[source]▶
Ah yes - Mistral is the largest of the non-US, non-Chinese AI companies that I'm aware of.

> The concern remains even if it’s a US corporation though (not government owned servers).

Very much so, I completely agree.

3. toxik ◴[17 Sep 25 19:11 UTC] No.45280121[source]▶
Anthropic is pretty clearly using the Häagen-Dasz approach here, call yourself Anthropic and your product Claude so you seem French. Why?
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4. bt1a ◴[17 Sep 25 19:12 UTC] No.45280130[source]▶
Everyone spies and abuses individuals' privacy. What difference does it make? (Granted I would agree with you if Anthropic were indeed a foreign based entity, so am I contradicting myself wonderfully?)
5. chatmasta ◴[17 Sep 25 19:13 UTC] No.45280144[source]▶
Hah, it was indeed the Claude name that had me confused :D
6. mcintyre1994 ◴[17 Sep 25 19:21 UTC] No.45280237[source]▶
According to Claude, it’s named after Claude Shannon, who was American.
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7. astrange ◴[17 Sep 25 21:16 UTC] No.45281494{3}[source]▶
But it might also be the albino alligator in the California Academy of Sciences in SF.