Posted by BloondAndDoom 1 day ago
spoiler alert: this is already happening
do labs in China have a choice in the matter?
(I wish this were a joke)
Pretty sure I remember that from the fumble
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I think what is much more interesting is what OpenAI and Google will do. There's probably some threshold of signatories where the companies in question do not fire everyone when they decide they want the DoD's business, the question will be how many people have to sign to cross it... and will enough people sign.
I don't think Google would bat an eye at firing 500 people to secure a DoD contract, but would they fire 5,000?
xAI is a pure choice. Their people have the ability to work at Anthropic but choose xAI.
The right way to deal with this is political - corporate campaign contributions and lobbying. You're not going to be able to fight the military if they think they need something for national security.
I mean it's neat, but naive at best.