Nord.redAnthropic Drops Flagship Safety Pledge
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FaceDeerFeb 24, 2026 1:00 PM MT
This happened days before Trump threw his toddler tantrum.
Just another example of how attempting to appease wannabe-autocrats doesn’t work. Best you can do is maybe distract or delay them a bit, but be ever ready for them to turn on you and demand more.
This wasn’t for Trumo tho, this was for Anthropic themselves so they could develop AIs quicker in the AI race. So mainly a business incentive mostly unrelated to Trump I believe
Rekall IncorporatedAll American polemics and “pledges” are BS, at least with respect to anything substantial.
Not saying it was always like this and that it will always be like that, but it is reasonable to assume there it will take another generation (20-30 years) before we see any positive developments with respect to the culture of corruption, criminality and dishonesty that has unfortunately come to dominate American society.
Doesn’t matter if a hypothetical Barack Obama II comes to power. From my time in the living in the US (several years with extensive travel across many different states), the impression I got is that on real matters an Obama is actually not too different from a Trump. The biggest difference is that Trump owns his corruption and criminality (with excellent electoral success).
Even in foreign policy, Obama de facto approved the annexation of Crimea (our new leadership asked for support to fight the russian invasion of Crimea and were rejected) and he went along to characterize russia as “a regional power making trouble with its neighbors.”
A comically stupid approach that’s not too different from Trump’s gibberish.
And if you think I am being uncharitable, ask yourself the following question:
Meta has been found to knowingly enable fraud to gain $16 B in 2024 alone. Meta was also reported to have developed a “playbook” to manage this fraudulent scheme; so the whole thing was premeditated and with clear intent.
Is anything going to happen Meta (the entity) or Meta’s leadership (be it the far right or the centre right is in power)? Anyone who has lived in the US in the last ~30 years knows the answer!
What? How does this align with them dropping the pentagon’s contract?
First of all: this happened before the Pentagon dropped their contract.
I’m not sure if this change is entirely relevant, because the whole “AI safety” thing has been a sham from the beginning. It’s always been unverifiable and the promises have always been undoable. LLM’s just predict next word with a little extra randomness. And there’s no way to guarantee through an LLM that they won’t predict next word that ends up being bad. You can’t promise this without removing the randomness and then testing the infinite input and output that could happen.
It’s basically like when Google removed “don’t be evil.” It was a promise that was unfalsifiable and unquantifiable.
Yeah, not in predicting, but they could do analysis of the generated output and filter. The so called “guardrails”
The problem is the filtration algorithm is basically flaky in the same way as the LLM itself, and probably is an LLM. And even if it does work, I’ve never heard a single soul say that Anthropic shut down their account due to questionable prompts. I even ran into somebody here who claims he uses AI to work on sexual abuse cases; he says that he’s been stalled by the chatbot, but he’s never been blocked even for review.
Sounds like they got black listed by the US and decided that was bad for business so they flipped quickly. Probably start sucking off Trump to get back in.
Funny timeline
- February 24: Anthropic drops “responsible” policy
- February 25: Defense Department gives Anthropic a deadline
- February 27: Trump orders cutting ties
Am not fully used to Lemmy/piefed yet - why does this 4 day old post say it was posted an hour ago?
It was posted in different communities.
In this one it was posted 4 days ago:
In https://piefed.social/c/technology it was posted a few hours ago.
It’s cross-posts like on reddit.
ScrubblesWen Google had to drop literally “don’t be evil”, something I would assume is supposed to be a given, I lost hope for all corporations.
It really was the final symbolic stamp for the overhaul we saw across silicon valley.
☂️-I admit the “don’t be evil” slogan was very effective on me. I fell for it, but never again.
It definitely had me trust them for way too long. To be fair, I trusted the original CEOs and company though, who from what I can tell were decent enough people.
When a company makes a pledge it’s either enforced by a court order or abandoned the second it’s no longer useful. It is known.
DudeImMacGyverThey could probably never actually do this. It seems that a trained model is some big mysterious thing that nobody really understands. They take some maths that’s so complicated barely anyone can understand it, feed it all the data they can possibly lay their hands on, then pump insane amounts of computational power through it. It’s the modern day equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster.
Yeah Anthropic has a whole research department for this
https://www.anthropic.com/research/team/interpretability
https://www.anthropic.com/research/tracing-thoughts-language-model
And you’re exactly right. Models at this point are like a trillion floats in complex vectorized matrix math and we don’t really know how that works to produce the output we see
UlrichI’m shocked!
After sharing entire disk drive with AI agent Anthropic asks it’s users to bend over to the camera once per day.
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Good to see the industry regulating itself!