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Anthropic has figured out the main game is making everyone operate in a state of fear. It's a constant source of PR. The government optimizes for minimizing downside risk, not upside. Internal government IT systems insecure? Chinese lead in cyber warfare? Chinese IP theft at the expense of American co? Capture of American data? Check. Check. Check. Check. Say it all, see what sticks. How do you thread the needle between those things, American regulatory capture, and ensuring your revenue machine? Easy! Ban the open model weights we can make safe, can operate within American, and create competition for Anthropic. Even the government *wants* competition to avoid Anthropic's policy / monopolization of intelligence. Do this instead of limiting usage of Chinese API based services which would be a more *nuanced* policy. Don't explain the difference between model weights, APIs, apps (like TikTok) to policy makers who aren't as savvy - just ban it if it has anything to do China.
The main thing I've learned this week is that Anthropic's lobbyists are world-class. They are absolutely killing it at a level this website cannot begin to comprehend. Level 0 is posting on X. These guys are Jedi master level playing the game.
@Suhail There are many to happy have Anthropic to be a tool in the innovation war with China. There's always an element of convenience with government action, especially internationally.
If you want to help adjust the narrative / direction of open weight models, use of Chinese OSS, avoidance of reg capture, etc. please DM me. We need credible AI researchers to help and I am working with people connected to this situation brewing.
@Suhail Except now I think Anthropic has jumped the shark and set back AI safety 10 years. You can only do this for so long before you lose all credibility. How does anyone actually concerned about AI safety still work there?