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The Guardian carrying water for the AI industry. The distinction between Maven and Claude is futile. We get that Maven is Palantir, but it integrates Claude:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/palantir-faces-challenge-...

Going into a generic rant about anti-AI people after missing sources and believing the Department of War is just extremely poor journalism from the newspaper that destroyed evidence after a command from GCHQ.

I hope this is a single "journalist" and that the Guardian has not been bought.

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I assume you actually read the article and didn't just post this after a quick skim, yes? Because saying this:

> The distinction between Maven and Claude is futile

Doesn't make any sense at all when you read the article and understand what Claude actually does in this equation. From the article:

> Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English. But the language model was never what mattered about this system.

The whole point here is that whether an LLM is involved or not is immaterial to the system as a whole, and it's a disservice to the public to focus on LLMs here.

The article you're responding to is making specific operational claims about Claude's (basically non-) relevance. I'd be interested to hear if you're directionally correct, but forgive me if I need more details than "but it integrates Claude".

Directionally correct is the other kind of emdash.

It's my understanding that they predate llms, and internet snivel.

This is not a correct take at all given the contents of the article.

Better than carrying water for people who blame inanimate tools for their own personal and professional failures.

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