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by simoncion 37 days ago
> Right now, this has become a risky decision that can tank my business overnight.

If your business-critical systems rely on SAAS that doesn't have a solid SLA and breach-of-contract provisions that more than cover the damages in the event, you've made "a risky decision that can tank [your] business overnight".

If the software your business depends on can't run indefinitely without getting permission to operate from someone else's systems, then you're perpetually at risk of someone else tanking your business because they decided that you can no longer use that software.
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redserk 37 days ago
Anyone doing product integrations should recognize it’s a perpetual risk but why stick to the platform that will require US citizenship demands for future models especially when there are other labs with reasonably comparable performance that don’t require this?

Anthropic didn’t have to beg for the government to deem their models a security crisis.

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simoncion 34 days ago
> ...especially when there are other labs with reasonably comparable performance that don’t require this?

This access restriction could be

1) A legitimate concern about capabilities.

2) A hype-generation scheme entered into by both the Federal Government and Anthropic.

3) Pettiness.

If we're in situation #1 or #3, then there are no other LLM providers that provide comparable services that are safe from this.

If we're in situation #2... well, I guess how safe you are from this is a factor of how desperately the company needs "wau, look how scary our software is!1!1" hype.

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sofixa 37 days ago
> Right now, this has become a risky decision that can tank my business overnight. If your business-critical systems rely on SAAS that doesn't have a solid SLA and breach-of-contract provisions that more than cover the damages in the event, you've made "a risky decision that can tank [your] business overnight".

I'm pretty sure that a US government export restriction / ban / etc. would count as a force majeure invalidating all the fancy wording you could wish for on a piece of paper.

The only way to actually control is to self manage in an environment you control.

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