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by Aurornis 4 hours ago
> Couple years ago the West was complaining about surveillance and scoring system of citizens in China (or was making fun of it)

Comparing a private company's service to something run and maintained by an entire government on their population is disingenuous, to say the least.
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chipgap98 4 hours ago
Why is that any different? What’s to stop that company sharing information with the government?
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Aurornis 4 hours ago
> Why is that any different?

Because one is a private company that people can choose to use or avoid. The other is a government that can force things upon people. How are they the same in any way?

You know many companies check ID, right? You submit ID for a lot of activities. This isn't a new concept that Anthropic invented.

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gaze 4 hours ago
with sufficiently many public/private partnerships, what's the difference?
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