> it cannot allow private companies to control the use of military equipment.

The big difference here is that Claude is not military equipment. It's a public, general purpose model. The terms of use/service were part of the contract with the DoD. The DoD is trying to forcibly alter the deal, and Anthropic is 100% in the clear to say "no, a contract is a contract, suck it up buttercup."

We aren't talking about Lockheed here making an F-35 and then telling the DoD "oh, but you can't use our very obvious weapon to kill people."

> Surely autonomous murderous robots is something U.S. government has interest in preventing

After this fiasco, obviously not. It's quite clear the DoD most definitely wants autonomous murder robots, and also wants mass domestic surveillance.

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tick_tock_tick 7 hours ago | parent [-]

So what your saying is it should be removed from the military supply chain?

	▲	8note an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		i dont think any of the big ai companies or any of the sota models should be in a kill chain i as a foreign citizen get to have hard to detect influence over the model because it scraped tons and tons of my internet comments. if youre going to have a supply chain, it needs to include where the trainjng data is sourced from and who can contribute to it
	▲	esafak 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, he's saying if this was such a big deal why did they sign up in the first place?