Selling a pen labeled "this pen will refuse to sign certain orders" is not sabotage or malicious and is thus not a supply chain risk. The DoD is free to not buy from Anthropic, but designating them as a supply chain risk is incorrect, as well as arguably arbitrary and capricious given their public criticism of Anthropic's beliefs.

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rdsubhas 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The DoD buys from suppliers, who buy from suppliers, and so on. Hence supply chain. Hence supply chain risk.

	▲	notahacker 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think anyone doubts that subcontracts exist. They doubt that Anthropic's insistence that Claude isn't capable of being the operating system for an automated killbot and associated terms the DoD previously agreed to means that there's any danger to the US military from Lockheed Martin using Claude as a code assistant to build GUIs.

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sippingabonedry 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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techblueberry 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

They thought the product was such garbage they threatened them for not letting them use it any way they wanted?

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sippingabonedry 25 minutes ago | parent [-]

Oddly when the topic of e.g. car infotainment systems comes up, like BMW locking you out of features in your own car, this place is up in arms, but when the military has a problem with it, suddenly they should be forced to accept it?

	▲	hardbass 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I am not the military. The military has special, near infinite powers I don't have. Therefore I always support anything that corrects the balance.