Comment by kccqzy
3 days ago
Marketing is never ever to blame. Remember a few months ago when the U.S. government labelled them a supply chain risk? What eventually happened was that a federal judge issued a temporary injunction while calling it a "classic First Amendment retaliation." The Constitution protects such marketing; the government is not allowed to be maddened by such marketing.
They certainly can restrict technology that is deemed to be a national security risk.
Not much stops them from saying it's due to national security, when it's actually due to the guy in the chair having a fit of emotions. And the current admin has a very long streak of declaring things as national emergencies when those things just so happen to be something they recently lost face on.
It is kinda amazing how quickly everybody else is to support authoritarianism if it agrees with some perceived slight of theirs.
I guess that is how it always starts.
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> Not much stops them from saying it's due to national security, when it's actually due to the guy in the chair having a fit of emotions
Trying to discern the motive for something like this in a court is a losing game. The opposing side has a good argument ("Anthropic said this is a weapon, so we're controlling it like a weapon") that does not involve first amendment protection.
Anthropic shot themselves in the foot, and they have nobody to blame but themselves.
There are multiple models at the level of or better than Fable / Mythos (see OpenRouter's just released Fusion API) and none of them are getting restricted.
The government can not be mad, it’s an organization. People in the government are “allowed” to feel however they’d like; their actions are restricted. And the point being made above is that the government might’ve believed their marketing and acted accordingly.