[Imnimo]

I am having trouble understanding which ingredient you feel is missing here.

Can you be more specific? It seems to me that the there was a third party assessment, they identified risks associated with the specific risk groups, and the government therefore chose to block the model's deployment.

[varenc]

The goverment used the existing ITAR laws to block the 'export' of the model to anyone not a US citizen. This is quite onerous to enforce, since it applies to non-citizens physically in the US. So Anthropic shutdown access completely, as the only reasonable solution.

The key point is the government used ITAR. What's being asked for by Dario (and many others) is some entirely new legal process with more involvement and balances that blocks the model for everyone explicitly. But apparently just enforcing ITAR is good enough to do effectively the same thing.

[vessenes]

You have to be precise: the gov blocked “export” of the model (search for ITAR for a lengthy history on this), and Anthropic picked up its ball and went home.

I’m willing to bet internally they thought this was a good plan from the beginning - from engagement, requests for reg oversight, Mythos PR, silently nerfing AI engineering quality, and now this “pulling the model” stunt. It’s frustrating, I generally like using the Claude models, but I don’t think I’ve ever been a customer of such a user-hostile company before.