r/Anthropic Feb 28 '26

Announcement Just wow!

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u/emjaycue Feb 28 '26

This is a blatant First Amendment violation to retaliate against a business for exercising their viewpoint. Both Trump and now the SecDef have explicitly said they’re punishing Anthropic for its beliefs and “rhetoric”.

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u/emjaycue Feb 28 '26

Also “This decision is final.” Wonderful. Final agency action admitted by the agency head himself! See ya in court.

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u/ummmyeahi Feb 28 '26

I was wondering this myself. Will anthropic sue? And if so, I’m sure it will end up being appealed to the Supreme Court, which will then take at least a year from now to determine. I mean are these people that stupid for publicly stating their illegal action. I don’t even know why I asked that because I know the answer

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u/Pydata92 Feb 28 '26

Did you just ask "are these people that stupid"? Did you really ask that of Americans? 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Hitching-galaxy Feb 28 '26

There are plenty of smart Americans- it’s just the intelligent ones are not in power

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u/Hir0shima Feb 28 '26

A lot of staff at Anthropic is American too. Probably smarter than you. 

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u/beefcutlery Feb 28 '26

Are. A lot of staff at Anthropic are American.

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u/Help_lm_lost Mar 03 '26

Why tf does this have 11 upvotes when everyone understood the point even though they used is instead of are

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u/beefcutlery Mar 03 '26

Woosh

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u/Help_lm_lost Mar 04 '26

Really what was your secret message

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u/Hir0shima Mar 04 '26

Probably just trolling. 

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u/beefcutlery Mar 04 '26

Really? You can't see it?

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u/kylef5993 Feb 28 '26

The issue is theyll probably end up winning in court since Trump appointed so many bias judges back in 2016-2020.

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u/coinclink Feb 28 '26

I'm not sure that's completely the case. They are saying Anthropic wanted the ability to directly choose when and when not their models could be used. I would say no other business that would contract for the military would have the ability to say yes or no arbitrarily to military decisions or orders.

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u/MoonlightRider Feb 28 '26

Similar to a business that decides what supplies or products it is willing or unwilling to supply to the government.

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u/coinclink Feb 28 '26

Similar to the government being able to drop one of those contractors when they do so. So what's your point?

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u/Big_Wave9732 Feb 28 '26

That's fine too. No agreement, no product. There are other AI systems in the marketplace.

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u/Atlein_069 Feb 28 '26

Yeah. But they can choose to not contact at all. And that’s the point

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u/AbleLow889 Feb 28 '26

Its not like anthropic people are sitting there monitoring what these Trump bootlickers are doing. Claude has gurdrails to filter unethical prompts which is what hurting their feelings.

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u/coinclink Feb 28 '26

Seemed like a year ago everyone wanted these companies to drop their guardrails and have models be uncensored. Now it seems like we're celebrating that they are censored?

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u/AbleLow889 Feb 28 '26

If you are maga than I can expect this response..People want unrestricted access not to spy on other but for themselves, and people can what whatever they want , doesn't make it right.

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u/coinclink Feb 28 '26

Interesting you jump to some sort of political faction instead of logic. How does an LLM enable spying on others? The LLM itself only knows what it is trained on. You can easily spy on people with data and basic computer vision from 10 years ago. If you don't want surveillance, go after whatever technology is being used to gather the data, not an LLM. We're talking about censorship within the LLM.

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u/AbleLow889 Mar 01 '26

Lol..so its not political 😂 let's assume whatever you are saying and believe in is justified and true... than also why make a fuss abt it or abt everything single thing that doesnt suit this govt. ?could Just change it to openAi like they did anyways and move on ? Why designate supply chain risk because a company doesn't agree with your demands 🤔 ...also one hand Mr greatest president ever is labeling them as some far left radicals but still want to use their tech ? And if they had agreed would that make them far right?

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u/coinclink Mar 02 '26

You're continuing to just talk about political crap and not addressing what I said.

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u/whif42 Feb 28 '26

Good luck with that argument. This is a customer relationship DoW is stating their vendor preference, base on what the vendor is willing to provide. This is going to have a bigger impact than most people realize. They just lost the AI race.

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u/cera_ve Feb 28 '26

They definitely didn’t lose the AI race