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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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223 points mindingnever | 2 comments | 17 Sep 25 17:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.406s | source
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g42gregory ◴[17 Sep 25 20:05 UTC] No.45280739[source]▶
No judgement here, but a US-based corporation refusing services to the US Government?

While the terms of service are what they are, the US Government can withdraw its military contracts from Anthropic (or refuse future contracts if they don't have any so far). Or softly suggest to its own contractors to limit their business dealings with Anthropic. Then Anthropic will have hard time securing computing from NVIDIA, AWS, Google, MSFT, Oracle, etc...

This won't last.

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1. e_i_pi_2 ◴[17 Sep 25 20:20 UTC] No.45280911[source]▶
I'm sure this sort of unofficial blacklisting is fairly common, but it does seem very opposed to the idea of a free market. It definitely doesn't seem like Anthropic was trying to make some sort of point here, but it would be cool if all the AI companies had a ToS saying it can't be used for any sort of defense/police/military purposes
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2. g42gregory ◴[17 Sep 25 20:39 UTC] No.45281119[source]▶
I am not even sure what free market is, aside from Economics textbooks and foreign policy positioning. Whatever it may be, I don't think we had it for quite some time.