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I don't agree. When anthropic contractually stopped the US government from using the platform for certain purposes that they could not prevent the average user from pursuing they created a de facto national security risk.

Prevent everyone from doing it or don't prevent anyone. You can't single out and cripple only one country.

I don't imagine that this was Anthropic's intent anyway. They were just trying to say that it shouldn't be used for warfare. Respectable, but short sighted considering that they couldn't stop other people from using it for that same purpose.

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> When anthropic contractually stopped the US government from using the platform for certain purposes that they could not prevent the average user from pursuing they created a de facto national security risk.

Anthropic had two red lines: 1) no lethal autonomous warfare without a human in the loop, and 2) no mass surveillance of Americans. How is that something the average user is capable of? How are those red lines creating a national security risk?

These were not special terms for the U.S. government, they were a part of the usage policy since 2024. Governments are not in the same class as the average user, their capability and potential for misuse of the service is not comparable. There is no reason why the U.S. government should dispute those terms, and their reaction was dystopian.

>These were not special terms for the U.S. government

Are they going to sue in Iran?

>How is that something the average user is capable of?

Do you really not know? Must be nice.

>How are those red lines creating a national security risk?

It's a policy banning nations (national) from using a technology as a weapon (security).

>There is no reason why the U.S. government should dispute those terms, and their reaction was dystopian.

Yeah it's dystopian! They are using it as a weapon. They told us that. Anthropic obviously knew that they would. They have a policy about it, because the tech itself is dystopian!

The 'national security risk' is imaginary and exists solely in the minds of the government morons in charge of AI policy

Bro, we know the US government is using it as a weapon because they told us! That is national security.

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