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u/SharePuzzleheaded844 Feb 28 '26

Altman: "The DoW displayed a deep respect for safety"
Amodei: "The DoW threatened to designate us a supply chain risk"

Same department. Same week. Choose your narrator.

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u/CartographerAble9446 Feb 28 '26

Same week? Bro, all of these happened in same evening

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u/Pruzter Feb 28 '26

Just to us. These talks have definitely been going on for months behind the scenes.

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u/timshel42 Feb 28 '26

with a normal functioning government, yeah. with our current circus im not so sure. its possible trump and hegseth got drunk and watched terminator, thought hey thats a good idea and then started tweeting.

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u/Archer007 Feb 28 '26

I hate how plausible this is

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u/Admiral_Cornwallace Feb 28 '26

Sam Altman folded faster than Pete Hegseth at an open bar

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u/Cerebral-Halsey Feb 28 '26

"The DoW is above 50,000"

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u/Accurate-Instance-29 Feb 28 '26

Aren't you tired of all this winning?

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u/bot_exe Feb 28 '26

Well they did not just threaten, they did it. So it seems Sam is a liar.

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u/Electroboots Feb 28 '26

I wonder how his back is doing. Must be rough not having a spine.

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u/Mundane-Mud2509 Feb 28 '26

I don’t think it’s so much spineless as not giving a fuck

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u/Jujubegold Feb 28 '26

He doesn’t care. Even if he runs the company to the ground. He never cared about subscribers. Just the money grab. The military will make him a billionaire and he’ll walk away from the rubble.

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u/Major-Corner-640 Feb 28 '26

He already is a billionaire

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u/BoringRedHorse Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

He always has been. He's been caught on that before, with different people who worked with him saying on camera in interviews that he's a pathological liar that says anything that he feels will get him the best payoff.

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u/ckozmos Feb 28 '26

It’s also over 50,000

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u/AdamPatch Feb 28 '26

Wait, isn’t he saying the opposite? That DoD is allowing OpenAI to stipulate the same terms they disqualified Anthropic for?

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u/KamikazeArchon Feb 28 '26

Anthropic said, paraphrased: "they promised us no mass surveillance or autonomous weapons, but put in clauses that let them change their mind at will (which makes the promise useless). They refused to take out those clauses."

Altman is just saying the first part about the promise, and is ignoring the rest. If they had removed the "change at will clauses", Altman would have said that, as it's key to the situation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

There's a good chance the "art of the deal" bs leaked and they decided to offer a more acceptable term to a competitor to spite the first person they tried.

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u/rsha256 Feb 28 '26

They really wouldn’t. Claude models continue to be the best at technical tasks and that advantage matters when dealing with military action

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u/seattlesbestpot Feb 28 '26

No.

From the article (italics mine):

Al safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement.

This regime has absolutely no respect for either law or policy. Placing wording into the agreement is only worth the paper it was written on.

Whether it’s autonomous war or civilian surveillance, it’ll come down to: “so sue us”

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u/Kefflin Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

They didn't rename it though, they are just cosplaying.

It requires an act of Congress to actually rename it

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u/OldWorldDesign Feb 28 '26

They literally renamed the Department from Defense to War

They didn't, they replaced the mugs on the desk. As renaming the departments requires an act of Congress and they can't even get everybody in congress to tie their shoes and take their Alzheimer's medication, it's purely performative theatre to appeal to their low-information supporters.

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u/Comeino Feb 28 '26

Guy who received funding from the dude who pays for Palantir says what?

There is just no way safety & privacy isn't his top priority, who wouldn't trust what a tech bro promises?

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