Comment by resonious
3 days ago
My gut reaction was that it does look like a PR stunt. But indeed it might also be a blunder caused by all of their other PR stunts. "Our new stuff is soooo dangerous!!", followed by "The US government believed us and acted accordingly".
The CEO's post even mentions supporting export controls, all be it in regards to chip exports. [1]
They suggested the use of the very law used against them here...
[1] https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential
I presume he's exhilarated that the government is taking the threat seriously and banning foreign nationals from accessing these super dangerous tools.
Congratulations, Dario!
> all be it
fyi you probably mean “albeit”.
Granted that Claude's whole marketing strategy has been fear mongering this is a win win situation for them tbh.
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