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Anthropic sues the Pentagon over being labelled a supply chain risk (futurism.com)

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[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It feels almost like Anthropic is trying to make this a marketing opportunity by reaffirming their mostly-illusory ethical stances. That was their original pitch against openAI, and this puts them rather than Saltman back at the center of the ai hype news cycle.

[–] scruiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

Did you know that same week this fight was going public Anthropic gave up on their "Responsible Scaling Policy"? (Well, technically they changed to a new version of their RSP that was even more empty and toothless.) To be fair the RSP was basically doomer crit-hype safety theater ("we have a plan for if our AI is so dangerous it is a catastrophic risk"), but if they actually followed it, they would have to stop releasing new models (or else unhype their model's capabilities), so it was obvious they would abandon the RSP at some point (even many lesswrongers and EAs expected this).

I would bet that the timing of ditching the RSP was a deliberate marketing strategy to mask one ethical backslide behind an ethical stand... except only booster and doomers even remotely expected the RSP to have any meaning in the first place. Still, comparing number of lesswrong, EA, and /r/singularity discussions on RSP v3 compared to discussions on the fight with the DoD, I think they did succeed in minimizing what little criticism they got.

That was their original pitch against openAI

So yeah. People on places like /r/singularity were starting to get skeptical of Anthropic's claims about ethics, but after this current saga I see loads of comments glazing them and praising them, so mission success.

I wonder if Hegseth realizes he has basically given Anthropic's marketing team exactly what they want?