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by statuslover9000 111 days ago
Anthropic did the deal with Palantir and was begging the government to use their technology to “fight authoritarianism”, are you insinuating that they shouldn’t be held morally accountable for these business decisions?
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rramadass 111 days ago
Your moral outrage is misplaced and is clueless in the face of reality.

Blame Palantir if you want to vent; Dario is literally putting Anthropic's future at risk by not kowtowing to DoW. Also, when Anthropic and Palantir finalized their partnership in 2024, many Anthropic employees raised concerns, which the company addressed by holding AMA meetings.

Anthropic and Google (to a certain extent) are far better when it comes to principles in AI-usage in the context of "Realpolitik" than OpenAI and xAI, both of whom have zero scruples as is personified by their CEOs.

Palantir partnership is at heart of Anthropic, Pentagon rift - https://www.semafor.com/article/02/17/2026/palantir-partners...

Palantir CEO’s rant about the Anthropic-Pentagon feud threatening his company was about a lot more than a dirty word - https://fortune.com/2026/03/05/palantir-ceo-alex-karp-anthro...

Anthropic-Palantir Partnership at Risk After Pentagon Ruling - https://archive.ph/EWmay#selection-993.0-993.60

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statuslover9000 111 days ago
It’s possible for other business leaders to be more evil than you and to still be on the wrong side of history. I’m not even saying Dario is ill-intentioned — just too propagandized to fully comprehend the moral implication of doing deals with war profiteers and throwing in with the U.S. empire.
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rramadass 111 days ago
You are making no sense.

Anthropic is selling a model and not applications using that model. The latter is not in their hands but they have drawn two specific red lines over which they are willing to go against the mighty DoW.

If you think that no AI model should be allowed to be used by the Military, then you are living in a clueless la-la land. There are perfectly justified Military/Law-Enforcement uses of AI. What we can demand are controls/oversight by a Human over its usage in a lawful manner. Anthropic has done its part by drawing two red lines and cannot be expected to do more.

It is companies like Palantir who build applications for warfare using Anthropic's (and others) models, enabling features like "shortening the kill chain", "enabling decision compression" etc. who need major oversight.

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