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I wouldn’t say “pure” theatre. I think the demands were serious while also being a common sense PR move that would also motivate (or not demotivate) their employees.
But they were supposed to just be easy to agree to. “Okay, yeah, we’ll have an overseer on the murder bots, and we won’t use it to spy on Americans.” Even with an optional wink wink nudge nudge, it still mostly works for Anthropic’s PR.
It was supposed to be a layup, and the administration airballed it.
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Which was revealed when Anthropic made their very simple demands and the administration threw a tantrum.
No fully autonomous murder; a human must make the final decision.
No domestic mass surveillance.
Pretty simple demands that should have been easy to agree to.
I’m still convinced this was just pure theatre to present them as the good and independent company that’s totally not working with the fascist state.
I wouldn’t say “pure” theatre. I think the demands were serious while also being a common sense PR move that would also motivate (or not demotivate) their employees.
But they were supposed to just be easy to agree to. “Okay, yeah, we’ll have an overseer on the murder bots, and we won’t use it to spy on Americans.” Even with an optional wink wink nudge nudge, it still mostly works for Anthropic’s PR.
It was supposed to be a layup, and the administration airballed it.
it seems like the whole drama didn’t really impact usage of their models by government agencies though
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Why would they want to turn down the ability to collect surveillance data on all their enemies?