cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/43768262
Some may have believed they were against AI being used for war. They just don’t want it to make the final kill decision.
The argument given by those supporting them is that AI in the military was inevitable, so their position is a reasonable one.
Well yeah, Anthropic’s statement said as much. And they already had a contract with the DoD. This isn’t a gotcha.
When mainstream media and various celebrities have cast Anthropic as the “good guy”, it’s important to point out.
I mean, yeah. They’re the only ones trying to hold out some reasonable constraints.
No. They aren’t the “good guy,” and they don’t need to be lauded as such.
Anthropic has been willing to throw away so many reasonable constraints, and they always have. The companies are disturbingly similar, and Anthropic is worse in some ways.
There’s enough distrust and conspiracy theorist in me to question if the whole thing isn’t a good cop/bad cop publicity stunt to attract “conscientious” consumers.
“Hey all you anti-authoritarian, anti-AI, anti-surveillance types, we’re your friend; we’re the un-AI. Now be good idiots and plot your dissent on our service.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Sam Bankman-Fried, etc all positioned themselves as the Cool/Good Guy who was better than all the others. Dario Amodei is just playing using the same playbook.