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Comment They're being made an example for others (Score 4, Interesting) 122

It's not about whether others have the same capability; it's because Anthropic refused to allow the US government to use their AIs to be involved in combat action. They're being turned into an example: "this is what happens to you when you refuse to do as we tell you to."

Trump really is a fascist and all tech companies should stand together against that clown. However, there's two things in the mix here which prevent them from standing together: 1) They're actually afraid, 2) They smell money. Anthropic will be bust soon and when that happens, Trump or some other clown in that government will make a remark which will come down to "Anthropic was your example, you could be next." Of course not literally that, it will be stated such they can wiggle themselves out from under any wrongdoing allegations, but still, the announcement will be made as soon as Anthropic is off the stage.

Comment What do you think? (Score 3, Informative) 38

Over here (in the Netherlands) we've got something called... errr... I know this might sound strange... errr... are you ready? Sure? A government which basically granted every government contract to Microsoft without so much as a single thought. Every. Single. Government department uses Microsoft per the blanket government contract. Oh, the fun of it? There's supposed to be procurement rules. Conveniently, they ignored those, otherwise Microsoft might have been facing stiff competition from other contractors.

The argument for ignoring those procurement rules (established by the EU)? There's no other market participant who can deliver on such a scale. Never mind they did zero actual investigation and just went with Microsoft. To me this smells of corruption.

And now there's this. Who would have thought?

Comment Re:No real penalty (Score 0) 29

I'm glad I don't live in the USA, which scores 94th on the world crime index and 58th in the safety index... Seems to me the USA isn't such a safe country.

A child cannot be expected to act responsibly or to have an idea of the consequences of its actions. The law and society should bend over backwards in order to protect any child, no matter what it has done.

Then again, the USA hasn't ratified the rights of the child treaty. It's the only country which hasn't done so yet. Disgusting.

Comment How to maintain traumas forever (Score 4, Interesting) 75

Remember that root-canal treatment you needed five years ago? Yeah, now you can! Including all the extreme pain because the dentist could not anesthetize because it was infected.

Or how about perfectly remembering getting raped?

Yeah, that'll help create some phobias.

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