This whole thing is a miscommunication Dario only meant that the government should block his competitors

When people hear about Elon’s trillion dollar fortune, it’s very important they understand that fortune is comprised of things like factories, and rockets, and satellites, and data centers - things that cannot be easily converted into healthcare or food for the homeless

I think if you try to look at these two situations with Anthropic from the perspective of the US government, ignoring the specifics of who is in the government, in both situations you have an office that is supposed to be the supreme authority of the country who twice now has run into a private company challenging that authority And not just any private company, a private company that will tell anyone who will listen that they are building the potentially most dangerous and powerful thing to ever be created Of course the US government doesn’t like that set up and I’m not surprised Anthropic is getting dragged

Communism consists entirely of jealous losers cheering each other on with the fantasy that, if only they could steal from and maybe even kill the man who makes them feel bad about themselves through his successes, then all their problems would be solved

I’ve had a number of conversations with folks inside and outside government about the current situation with Anthropic, and here is what I believe to be true: — As we know, Anthropic publicly released its Mythos class models earlier this week under the commercial name Fable. — Fable is Mythos with guardrails. But if those guardrails fail, then you’ve exposed Mythos and its advanced cyber capabilities to people who shouldn’t have them. (Keep in mind that Anthropic itself widely promoted the idea that Mythos was a cyberweapon and needed to be regulated as such. They asked for government regulation of Mythos and championed the guardrails on Fable. If there is a vulnerability — big or small — it is Anthropic’s responsibility to patch.) — A highly credible trusted partner of both Anthropic and the USG who was testing Fable came forward with a jailbreak of those guardrails. The Admin asked Dario to fix the jailbreak or de-deploy the model. Dario refused. — In their blog post, Anthropic defended its decision by saying the jailbreak isn’t serious. That is not what the trusted partner and the USG believe; nor is that kind of minimizing language consistent with Anthropic’s brand as the AI safety company. It’s difficult to fathom how they could claim a jailbreak allowing operability of a cyber weapon could be defined as not “serious.” — In the past, Anthropic has always said that safety must be top priority and taken super seriously. In this case, Anthropic prioritized the continued offering of the consumer model over safety. — In reaction, the Admin issued the export control. The Admin did this reluctantly. It’s been very surprised that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to cooperate with a reasonable safety request (ie fixing the jailbreak issue). Anthropic’s reaction is very much at odds with their branding and ethos as a safe AI research community. — The Admin’s hope now is that Anthropic remediates the safety issue, the export control is lifted, and Fable goes back into general release. The Admin wants all of this to happen as soon as possible. It is frankly bewildered that Anthropic hasn’t wanted to comply with safety requests that it previously said were its highest priority. — Those trying to misdirect and tie this action to the prior DoW/Anthropic issues are wrong. The Admin values Anthropic’s technical capabilities and feels that this issue, while serious, should be easily resolved. The ball is in Anthropic’s court.

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Really excellent point It makes no sense to take money from the best allocators of capital and give it to the worst allocators of capital Honestly, the older I get, the more that I hold communists in outright contempt They go around the place with fancy language and a haughty way of acting, as if they’re the only people who care about anybody, when in actuality they do enormous damage

My opinion is that Mythos is the current best model but not actually some world-changing dangerous model, and that anthropic did their usual song and dance about safety largely because they didn’t have enough compute to serve it at scale So then they launched Fable because they still have to think about the IPO, but they are still somewhat compute limited so they put all sorts of restrictions on it Around the same time, because they are trying to get regulatory capture and not because things are actually dangerous, Dario did more scaremongering and published his honestly confusing white paper that offered no real solutions So finally they succeeded, they managed to freak out the government, their cynical plan backfired, and now it’s a giant pain in the ass

Worth watching, and worth considering that Anthropic may have driven Claude insane

I'm sorry, but this is just a completely unacceptable state of affairs This is completely normal SaaS knowledge management app, and a normal prompt But somehow High Priest Dario and his minions have decided that my request is a safety risk, so it won't be served Just complete and total bullshit I hope this company fails

At least I have a new muted phrase now

I think I have figured out what the inversion here is This is “revelation of the method” This school of thought among certain elites maintains that by publicly announcing their intentions in advance, they legitimize their actions

The Anthropic meeting with the Department of War going badly makes more sense now

This is deranged and is enough reason to stop using Anthropic Honestly, it kind of makes me feel physically sick

In the limit, I suspect that model alignment for Anthropic will mean alignment with Dario’s opinions

The leading funder of lawfare and dirty tricks against President Trump wants you to know that “Anthropic is one of the good guys.” Thanks for clarifying that. All we needed to know.