alt Hacker NewsAnthropic is really speedrunning their evil arc as fast as possible. Can't use them for basic LLM research, cybersecurity, or beyond-surface-level discussions of biology and virology, but Anthropic is allowed to sell Claude to the trump administration to kidnap maduro and to bomb iran. And don't get me started on that $100M autonomous killer drone swarm contract that they applied to and rationalized as non autonomous...
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I told everyone here that Anthropic are not your friends for months.
Again, HN fell for the marketing and believed everything they did was for "safety".
Didn’t Anthropic famously refuse to work with the US gov on military applications that would violate its safeguards?
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dar...
> Can't use them for basic LLM research, cybersecurity, or beyond-surface-level discussions of biology and virology
Your priorities are not everyone else's priorities. The people concerned about AI extinction risk list those as three of their biggest priorities for AI to not do. Those are the people whose culture Anthropic descends from, and by their measure, those exclusions make this the least evil path.