Tensions between The Pentagon and AI giant Anthropic reach a boiling point (opens in new tab)

(nbcnews.com)

17 pointsjaredwiener1mo ago9 comments

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Aside: what's up with this style of article title? Reaching a boiling point... isn't a thing that really happens. It's not even a reasonable editorialization, given how many times, apparently, the same thing can reach a boiling point without anything changing. Why can't the title be something to do with what happened, like "Pentagon and Anthropic clash over policy violations after Venezuela" or something? Like the titles in newspapers of yore.

I'm sure the answer is somehow 'clicks', of course. But I feel like I see dozens of these non-titles every day and maybe if everyone else also parsed them as pathetic then they'd gradually start to fade out. (Hence my complaining, to raise awareness or something...)

pants21mo ago

If you're heating water, the heating is just "talk" while boiling is "action" -- but boiling takes a long time even once you've reached the boiling point!

larodi1mo ago

What’s up with the amount of ads also. I’d actually love to read an LLM retold version of this article, would save me cognitive tension for sure.

spankibalt1mo ago

Link edited out.

LeoPanthera1mo ago

This is the same archive site that uses its captcha page to hijack your browser to DDOS people the site owner doesn't like.

I'm disappointed people continue to use it, especially in unnecessary situations like this - the article is not paywalled.

jborichevskiy1mo ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/0LYM6OmqXD

This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole but, yikes

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spankibalt1mo ago

That's indeed disappointing; I edited out the link. Thanks for the heads-up.

esafak1mo ago

“Our nation requires that our partners be willing to help our warfighters win in any fight,” [Chief spokesman for the Pentagon Sean Parnell] said in a statement.

This send a very bad signal to AI companies: turn off the safety features, or we'll find a company that will.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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ajkjk1mo ago

pants21mo ago

If you're heating water, the heating is just "talk" while boiling is "action" -- but boiling takes a long time even once you've reached the boiling point!

larodi1mo ago

What’s up with the amount of ads also. I’d actually love to read an LLM retold version of this article, would save me cognitive tension for sure.

spankibalt1mo ago

Link edited out.

LeoPanthera1mo ago

This is the same archive site that uses its captcha page to hijack your browser to DDOS people the site owner doesn't like.

I'm disappointed people continue to use it, especially in unnecessary situations like this - the article is not paywalled.

jborichevskiy1mo ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/0LYM6OmqXD

This led me down a bit of a rabbit hole but, yikes

1 more reply

spankibalt1mo ago

That's indeed disappointing; I edited out the link. Thanks for the heads-up.

esafak1mo ago

“Our nation requires that our partners be willing to help our warfighters win in any fight,” [Chief spokesman for the Pentagon Sean Parnell] said in a statement.

This send a very bad signal to AI companies: turn off the safety features, or we'll find a company that will.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse