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Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use

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223 points mindingnever | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 17:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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impossiblefork ◴[17 Sep 25 18:48 UTC] No.45279816[source]▶
Very strange writing from semafor.com

>For instance, an agency could pay for a subscription or negotiate a pay-per-use contract with an AI provider, only to find out that it is prohibited from using the AI model in certain ways, limiting its value.

This is of course quite false. They of course know the restriction when they sign the contract.

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jdminhbg ◴[17 Sep 25 19:07 UTC] No.45280048[source]▶
Are you sure that every restriction that’s in the model is also spelled out in the contract? If they add new ones, do they update the contract?
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mikeyouse ◴[17 Sep 25 19:13 UTC] No.45280148[source]▶
The contracts will usually say “You agree to the restrictions in our TOS” with a link to that page which allows for them to update the TOS without new signatures.
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giancarlostoro ◴[17 Sep 25 19:26 UTC] No.45280306[source]▶
Usually, contracts will note that you will be notified of changes ahead of time, if it's a good faith contract and company that is.
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impossiblefork ◴[17 Sep 25 19:31 UTC] No.45280372[source]▶
Here in Sweden contracts are a specific thing, otherwise it's not a contract, so agreeing to conditions that can be changed by the other party simply isn't a contract and therefore is just a bullshit paper of very dubious legal validity.

I know that some things like this are accepted in America, and I can't judge how it would be dealt with. I assume that contracts between companies and other sophisticated entities are actual contracts with unchangeable terms.

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1. mikeyouse ◴[17 Sep 25 22:00 UTC] No.45281893{5}[source]▶
Yeah, I’ve signed dozens of contracts for services and some are explicit in the way you expect but a lot of software or SAAS type contracts have flexible terms that refer to TOS and privacy policies that are updated regularly. It’s uncommon that any of those things are changed in a way that either party is upset with so companies are generally okay signing up and assuming good faith.