You're mistaken, this is a cratering of the userbase inside and outside of the US. The ban is on any foreigner whether abroad or living in the USA, so Anthropic has no choice but to completely shut down access to the model for the whole world including the US.

Their IPO is well and truly fucked now. This also means no other frontier lab in the US is allowed to exceed Opus 4.8 capabilities.

If you're a luddite or a decel you should literally be dancing in the streets right now. And, if you're a tankie you'll be dancing right next to them. And, if you were hoping for a Star Trek-like future, you just adjusted your timeline for the worse.

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SepiaSapient 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>this is a cratering of the userbase inside and outside of the US.

Is it really? It was limited release anyway (like hypebeast merch!). Everything people are gonna talk about for a week is gonna be about how Fable was so cool that it got banned by the feds. If it's just the Trump admin being the Trump admin, Amodei is just gonna have to pay up as a racket / marketing expense. Or it is like I'm suspecting and this was pre-bribed and the ban is kabuki theater.

>And, if you were hoping for a Star Trek-like future, you just adjusted your timeline for the worse.

The funny thing is that solar and batteries advancements are actually this, not LLMs, but your framing kinda fits anyways.

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		> The funny thing is that solar and batteries advancements are actually this No no no, dont say it here. Green tech is now owned by China that wants to destroy everything. And US bigtech working hard to save everything by building safe controlled super AI that will burn all the energy it has access to.

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untcarcandy 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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