"i told everyone that our boss shouldn't punish our colleague for X while i somehow made a deal with our boss for basically X". how did this get by without someone thinking about how absolutely stupid the optics look.
i guess we are in the times where you can literally just say whatever you want and it just becomes truth, just give it time.
scottyah 20 hours ago|
hah, they basically stole a coworkers promotion, then told that person that they put in a good word with the boss about them. So silly, I do wonder who actually interprets it as Sam seems to hope people do.
retsibsi 17 hours ago|||
At this point I think they're targeting two groups: people who aren't paying much attention to this but may see the occasional headline or tweet or soundbite; and people (such as OpenAI employees, and users who might feel compelled to boycott but really don't want to) who are motivated not to see OpenAI as the bad guy and really just need a fig leaf.
drak0n1c 19 hours ago|||
Coworker? They're competitors. This is simply good business.
throwaway911282 22 hours ago||
People forget Anthropic made a deal with PALANTIR. And when this was caught, they just spinned the PR to their favor. While OAI may not be seen as the good guys, I really hope people see the god complex of Dario and what Anthropic has done.
ActorNightly 17 hours ago||
I really hope that you realize that your propaganda machine is super easy to spot.
germandiago 11 hours ago||
Awful. Just saw the account is 17 days old and all comments are about Anthropic in this same way.
anon12345678901 21 hours ago|||
Right. My understanding is that the Palantir deployment of Anthropic models was intended for in-theater use on classified systems.
Archonical 18 hours ago|||
Palantir is a glorified data aggregation/data visualization platform. Hooking up Claude to different data systems, with safeguards turned on in Claude Gov, is different than what the government is asking from them now. Similar to if the government had Claude hooked up to Tableau/some salesforce derivative and then asked it to be autonomous in the kill loop/spy on US citizens.
ozmodiar 8 hours ago||
"Glorified" is underselling it. Thier ability to microtarget anyone based on any trait is basically the death of democratic discourse. Now, if you're saying the data is just there for anyone to do this, you're correct, and society needs to understand that and what it means.
user3939382 21 hours ago|||
Welcome to the theater ie Earth.
stevenhuang 17 hours ago||
You don't understand what palantir does.
kouteiheika 2 hours ago||
Direct quote from their CEO:
> Our product is used on occasion to kill people.
Doesn't get any more clear than this.
chenzhekl 14 hours ago||
The statement from OpenAI makes me feel that Sutskever was right; Altman is full of lies and will say anything for his own interests.
moab 18 hours ago||
I hope "OpenAI" gets the proverbial sword in the nuts once we get a change of government in this country. Probably unrealistic to hope for. Can a company be more hypocritical after openly bribing the pedophile in charge of this country?
vldszn 1 day ago||
I built a website that shows a timeline of recent events involving Anthropic, OpenAI, and the U.S. government.
This incident shifts LLMs from being only productivity tools to strategic munitions – ready or not. It shouldn't surprise us, but the technical capabilities have reached a point where the 'made in the US' is an active risk for non-US entities given the conflict we see now. Maybe this will trigger the start of an AI arms race where Europe (and others) must secure their own sovereign infrastructure and models. As a European citizen I prefer a balanced world with options rather than a West dominated by US hegemony. Interestingly, if you look at what Anthropic keep insisting on in regards of regulations and ethical use of its models EU should be where Anthropic finds its safe haven. Maybe they should just move their HQ to Brussels, or Barcelona if they prefer a more ‘sunny California’ like vibe.
owenthejumper 22 hours ago||
Nice attempt at damage control. You made your own bed, now sleep in it
qoez 12 hours ago||
This is classic sama policy. With your words act with grace and counter to what observers will think you would. But in actions and behind the scenes take every step to undermine the competition.
sqircles 22 hours ago|
What's the potential that this puts things on even shakier ground? I'm sure the fallout wont really effect their bottom line that much in the end, but if it did - wouldn't making the US Gov't their largest acct make them more susceptible to doing everything they said?
I'm guessing they probably would regardless of how this played out, though.