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Maybe. Maybe not.

His point is that Anthropic is likely doing this on purpose for their own IPO and to counter the other IPOs.

I don't see how one could possibly come to that conclusion, except by rejecting out of hand the idea that there could be a true threat requiring genuine caution.

> rejecting out of hand the idea that there could be a true threat requiring genuine caution.

What true threat could possibly exist where the models are perfectly fine to use, just only by American citizens?

None, but the executive branch doesn't have any power to summarily prohibit American citizens from using dangerous things. If the danger checks out and can't be mitigated then Congress will have to pass a law.

Anthropic is... making the US government shut down their flagship model on purpose? The conspiratorial thinking on HN is approaching UFO subreddit levels.

It's so difficult to have rational AI discussion here anymore. Half (or more?) of the developer community seems to have some form of AI hysteria that causes them to throw all logic out the window in service of the magical machine god.

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