No judgement here, but a US-based corporation refusing services to the US Government?

While the terms of service are what they are, the US Government can withdraw its military contracts from Anthropic (or refuse future contracts if they don't have any so far). Or softly suggest to its own contractors to limit their business dealings with Anthropic. Then Anthropic will have hard time securing computing from NVIDIA, AWS, Google, MSFT, Oracle, etc...

This won't last.

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LastTrain 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I am of an age where I read comments like this with my mouth agape. It is (was) perfectly normal to choose whether or not to do business with the government.

	▲	Gigachad 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of abnormal things happen when your government becomes a dictatorship.

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e_i_pi_2 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm sure this sort of unofficial blacklisting is fairly common, but it does seem very opposed to the idea of a free market. It definitely doesn't seem like Anthropic was trying to make some sort of point here, but it would be cool if all the AI companies had a ToS saying it can't be used for any sort of defense/police/military purposes

	▲	g42gregory 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I am not even sure what free market is, aside from Economics textbooks and foreign policy positioning. Whatever it may be, I don't think we had it for quite some time.

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SpicyLemonZest 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Your grandchildren will disown you when they learn what you supported in 2025.

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g42gregory a day ago | parent [-]

First of all, no need for personal attacks. Second, I am not supporting this, merely stating the reality.

Would you rather pretend that things like that aren't happening?

	▲	SpicyLemonZest 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's absolutely a need for personal attacks. By suggesting that people ought to just give in and accept this as the new reality, you are supporting it, and you need to know that this represents a severe moral flaw. You're not just being pragmatic, or realistic, or whatever polite fiction you tell yourself to avoid having to take a stand. You're being a bad person, intentionally doing your part to make the country worse in the hopes that you can be a little more comfortable. Change your ways now or you'll bear the shame the rest of your life.