alt Hacker News> Anthropic's position was categorical: no mass surveillance, full stop.
It was "[No] mass domestic surveillance of Americans"
It's far more narrow a restriction than you seem to imply. For example, mass domestic surveillance of non-Americans seems okay.
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stahorn • today at 8:07 AM
No mass domestic surveillance of citizens is an old trick also. Country A doesn't surveil their citizens and Country B doesn't do theirs. But then they set up the infrastructure and both surveil each other's citizens and then exchange information. Then when they have all the infrastructure, it would be almost a crime to not use it to catch criminals. I mean, think of the children...
That's right. From outside the US Anthropic looks every bit as threatening as any other AI company.