alt Hacker NewsI admire Anthropic for sticking to their principles, even if it affects the bottom line. That’s the kind of company you want to work for.
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Companies change (remember "don't be evil"?) but yeah for the Anthropic of today, respect.
I'm signing up for their $200/year plan to reward them for standing up to this regime.
The team that handles their PR has done an amazing job in the last 9 months
This whole saga is extremely depressing and dystopic.
Anthropic is holding firm on incredibly weak red lines. No mass surveillance for Americans, ok for everyone else, and ok to automatic war machines, just not fully unmanned until they can guarantee a certain quality.
This should be a laughably spineless position. But under this administration it is taken as an affront to the president and results in the government lashing out.
They have earned my business, for now.
If you're a billionaire there's no risk to "sticking to principles", so there's nothing to admire. Also that's not what they're doing. These are calculated moves in a negotiation and the trump regime only has 3 years left. Even a CEO can think 4 years ahead.
It's probably in Anthropic's interest to throw grok to these clowns and watch them fail to build anything with it for 3 years.
Exactly.
> 83 people in total killed in US attack to abduct President Nicolas Maduro
Blood is on their hands already
It's also a very clear differentiator for them relative to Google, Facebook, and OpenAI, all of whom are clearly varying degrees of willing to sell themselves out for evil purposes.