alt Hacker NewsSo they agreed to the same red lines that had earlier led to the fallout with Anthropic? Kind of strange.
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I don't trust Sam to be telling the truth. It would be to his benefit to lie about this and make Anthropic look bad, so he of course would, even if it's not actually the case.
Sam saw Anthropic was getting too competitive. So he called his buddies in the gov to knock them down a peg.
Well you know how it goes... you need to read between the lines. I can agree with you on your "principles", but not enforce them myself.
It makes sense if you imagine the real motivation is “make sure the AI contracts go to my good friend Sam”, and all the red line stuff is just a way to pick a fight with Anthropic.
No, the difference is that the government agrees to no "unlawful" use as determined by the government.
Anthropic said that mass surveillance was per se prohibited even if the government self-certified that it was lawful.
Follow the money. There is a UAE sheik who bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty and is involved in OpenAI's Project Stargate:
https://www.binance.com/en/square/post/35909013656801
I'm sure more will drop in the coming months.
I bet Sam secretly pledged to DoD that the red lines were only temporary, for optics and to calm employees at the all hands meeting.
A few months down the line, OpenAI will quietly decide that their next model is safe enough for autonomous weapons, and remove their safeguard layer. The mass surveillance enablement might be an indirect deal through Palantir.