[IG_Semmelweiss]

I understand that Anthropic has one of the most popular products in the market.

But no one, especially the government, should get in bed with them, when anthropic leadership has a track record trying to use their early mover advantace, to effectively create an AI cartel [1]

I'm glad Anthropic is getting a taste of their own medicine.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-15/anthro...

[bigyabai]

I can't grok this comment. Are you pro or anti-cartel?

[IG_Semmelweiss]

very much anti cartel

Any company using a huge $$ war chest to shower themselves in regulation, is likely trying to usurp market powers from the public -via congressional bribes- to themselves.

[misnome]

How is this different from… any of their competitors?

[IG_Semmelweiss]

Anthropic officially funds lobbyists in excess than other huge companies like Microsoft or Amazon. Its latest $20M outlay [1] alone is more that the spend of either company. Their lobbying spend combined is now on par with companies like META, which have tons of regulatory battle fronts (unlike Anthropic)

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2026/02/20/ais-bigges...

[buellerbueller]

You have described here all of Silicon Valley, VC and Y Combinator lol.

[vonneumannstan]

You're smoking something funny. They have just shown they are willing to designate a US company as essentially a foreign spy agency because they wanted to try and renegotiate a contract and didn't get what they wanted and that's your reaction?

[IG_Semmelweiss]

>>>> willing to designate a US company as essentially a foreign spy agency

Can you quote where I said that ?

[mcherm]

You wrote:

> I'm glad Anthropic is getting a taste of their own medicine.

I took that to mean that you support the Pentagon's threat which essentially IS to label Anthropic as a national security threat, simply because they wouldn't give the Pentagon the right to use Anthropic's AI to operate weapons or spy on American citizens.

[IG_Semmelweiss]

Big fish tries to use their might to kill off small fish .

Anthropic uses big $$ it to become big fish in the AI pond.

Anthropic just found there are bigger fish in their pond.

I'm glad Anthropic have been reminded of this. THat doesn't mean I endorse the US govt using law to make companies a "national security threat" , although its an extremelt easy path from: monopolistic to -> active "national security threat".

Govt can, and in fact, has a mandate to, go after businesses when those businesses threaten a functioning market. Threatening is certainly part of that arsenal.

That's what anticompetitive rules are all about.

[vonneumannstan]

You are deliberately or accidentally confusing a lot of things here. This is not some anti-monopoly maneuver by the... DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

[smarf]

can you quote where they claimed the above was your statement?

[IG_Semmelweiss]

You are correct, but I can't change my comment now.

I stand corrected