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by resonious 48 days ago
My gut reaction was that it does look like a PR stunt. But indeed it might also be a blunder caused by all of their other PR stunts. "Our new stuff is soooo dangerous!!", followed by "The US government believed us and acted accordingly".
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The CEO's post even mentions supporting export controls, all be it in regards to chip exports. [1]

They suggested the use of the very law used against them here...

[1] https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

I presume he's exhilarated that the government is taking the threat seriously and banning foreign nationals from accessing these super dangerous tools.

Congratulations, Dario!

> all be it

fyi you probably mean “albeit”.

Granted that Claude's whole marketing strategy has been fear mongering this is a win win situation for them tbh.