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hank2000

Stay strong Anthropic. We just like you more for this.

I don't know if I like Anthropic more, but I certainly like their competitors much less now.

The new thing that I know about leading AI companies that aren't Anthropic (i.e. OpenAI, Google, Grok, etc) is that they knowingly support using their tools for domestic mass surveillance and in fully autonomous weapon systems.

Exactly - the implication is that every other company is absolutely open to surveilling you and killing you. They’re complicit. They participate in whatever the regime calls for.

Is that actually the case? or are they just not supplying LLMs to DoW and Anthropic is?

The other companies have signed the waiver, however they aren’t being used in classified systems currently. So that type of use is already extremely limited for them. Now once they enter into those contracts to be used in those systems without these protections, I will cancel my subs to them and switch to Anthropic. xAi entered into that contract last week. Altman is now publicly siding with anthropic, so he better stand on that position with openai as they are currently negotiating for use in those system.

We might not hear about any contracts that happen.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47189650

It looks like OpenAI soon will be: https://fortune.com/2026/02/27/openai-in-talks-with-pentagon...

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