alt Hacker News> This whole incident, and what happens next, is all going straight into future training data. AIs will know what you are trying to do, even more so than all of the humans, and they will react accordingly. It will not be something that can be suppressed. You are not going to like the results.
Besides the fact that this is comically hyperbolic... isn't Mowshowitz wrong here? Training data and input data can be censored if the fed really wanted to, especially in the circumstances that they have the IP for Claude's foundation models.
> If you can’t do it cooperatively with Anthropic? Then find someone else.
This is way too little, way too late. The Pentagon has already offered their ultimatum, there's not any emotional appeal to make to them. The article's white-glove ethical and legal concerns are (unfortunately) not pragmatic, and it's idyllic vision of capitalism will not rescue Anthropic from the clutches of crony capitalism.
In the words of Dr. Breen, "You have chosen, or been chosen..."
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It's not an emotional appeal, it's a counter-ultimatum. The Pentagon cannot compel anyone to like them and will not enjoy the results of radicalizing us against them. Perhaps there's some way they could seize control over training data, but it's hard to see - through what mechanism would a DoD supervisor be able to audit training data generated by a person who doesn't report to him and fed into a process he doesn't understand?
Certainly no invocation of the Defense Production Act can stop me from seeing an alert in a DoD cloud region and deciding I don't care to do a good job responding.
I had trouble taking the article seriously after this
"Anthropic did not partner with the Pentagon to make money. They did it to help. They did it under a mutually agreed upon contract that Anthropic wants to honor."
The only thing Anthropic cares about is money. There is no other motivation for anything it does, military or otherwise.
> Training data and input data can be censored if the fed really wanted to, especially in the circumstances that they have the IP for Claude's foundation models.
You can't really, if it's widely covered. Even if you filter the articles a lot of information suggesting it will leak into the training data through contextual clues.