They weren't freaked by anything, it's a retaliatory shakedown after ideological differences and Anthropic not doing exactly what they're told/what the Admin wants them to do.

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nicman23 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

just market manip

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functionmouse 5 hours ago | parent [-]

they're setting the scene for an attempt to scare the geriatric decision makers into banning free and open source ML, as it's the industry's only real competition

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usefulcat 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> free and open source ML

What does that mean exactly? Like sure, you can get some freely available weights and run them on your own hardware, but where did those weights come from?

Was the training process in any way "open", or are you simply relying on a handout from some other (probably large, probably corporate) organization that has the resources to do the actual training?

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soupfordummies an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the current buzz about "sharing the wealth" with these AI co.s also smells of "sure we'll give you some back, just don't regulate us, see you dont need to, we're sharing our shares!"

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SpaceL10n 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

or are you setting the scene for well-meaning technocrats to back unrestricted AI development in hopes it will bring about utopia while dismissing the damage it could cause in the hands of adversarial groups?

	▲	functionmouse 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		tl;dr super AI is like a necessary bush fire AI isn't that scary. But I've also got some extreme minority opinions like "Never give a website your real name" and "Computers should not be used for banking" and "Don't believe anything you hear online". The worst I see AI/ML doing to society is shining an unmistakable light onto the blind spots people have already been exploiting for decades. Y2k forced us to patch the integer bug. Super AI will force us to reevaluate what cyber security even is.
	▲	nicman23 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		fight fight fight fight

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cpburns2009 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No, it's regulatory capture. Anthropic is the current leader and they want to ensure their position by forcing regulation to stamp out the Chinese competition.

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godwinson__4-8 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How does this achieve that goal?

	▲	cogman10 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		That's what's not clear to me. About the only way this works is if we create the "Great US firewall", or if china decides to also put in export controls around usage of their models (unlikely).
	▲	1f60c 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I would add "...especially considering this administration thinks AI regulation is a scam invented by Big China to slow down American innovators?"

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Supermancho 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Anthropic is the current leader

How's that determined?

	▲	dgellow 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		API usage? They are for sure leading in the enterprise world

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martythemaniak 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yep, people are expanding way too much mental energy on basic bribery. Anthropic will agree to work with the DoD, WH insiders will get some lucrative pre-IPO allocation and Fable will be magically "fixed" and available again.

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consumer451 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have no idea why anybody is talking about "jailbreaks."

The government made it clear what was going to happen to a private company not following the government's orders:

> Trump said on his Truth Social platform: “The Leftwing nut jobs at Anthropic have made a DISASTROUS MISTAKE trying to STRONG-ARM the [Pentagon], and force them to obey their Terms of Service instead of our Constitution.” [0]

> There will be a Six Month phase out period for Agencies like the Department of War who are using Anthropic’s products, at various levels. Anthropic better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow. [1]

Plus OpenAI fell in line, and OpenAI and Anthropic have competing IPOs coming up... it doesn't take a rocket surgeon to understand what is happening here.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/28/openai-us...

[1] https://businesslawtoday.org/2026/04/dod-conflicted-strategi...