The rest of the world is part of the global supply chain too. When it comes time to choose AI suppliers, companies will go “Uuh, maybe give Anthropic a skip just in case…”, however palatable they may be.
Anthropic’s tech would have to be overwhelmingly better than its competitors for AI customers to ignore the risk of losing potential business due to the supply chain poisoning effect of the DoD’s classification, and they’re not that much better.
That’s the tragedy of the DoD’s vile decision.
Not sure I care overly much about the fate of the amoral corporation getting fucked over by the fascist regime. They’re both juggernauts, and I would love to see them damage each other.
Remember, the fallout wasn’t about the morality of the unsupervised spicy autocomplete killing people, it was about who had the liability when the AI went inevitably wrong. Had the DoD accepted the liability, I’m certain Anthropic would have sold the the stupidest version of skynet imaginable.
Companies these days do what is right for their shareholders and if Claude makes money, or appears to make money, then the shareholders are happy.
MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’m not sure whether you realize how incredibly toxic the US is becoming right now… Anthropic made the right call, history-wise.
ragepaw@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Not to mention the utter American arrogance of stating that because the US doesn’t like something, the rest of us will blindly follow along.