Note to staff: Sam Altman says OpenAI seeks a DOD deal, except for use cases like domestic surveillance, and wants to “help de-escalate” DOD-Anthropic fight
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Discussion
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@scaling01
@scaling01
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he wants to be part of this so bad he knows this was an insane relative aura loss for labs not named Anthropic
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@hadas_gold
Hadas Gold
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Sam Altman on Pentagon/Anthropic fight just now on CNBC: “The government the Pentagon needs AI models. They need AI partners. This is clear and I think Anthropic and others have said they understand that as well. I don't personally think the Pentagon should be threatening DPA
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@mikeisaac
Rat King
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OAI waits to see where wind blows in showdown with pentagon. anthropic doesn't flinch, get lots of cred among developer community yesterday we see open letter from rank and file at OAI/goog support anthropic. now, OAI writes this designed to leak to claim some goodwill funny
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@andrewcurran_
Andrew Curran
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Sam Altman in a note to staff last night: 'We are going to see if there is a deal with the DoW that allows our models to be deployed in classified environments and that fits with our principles. We would ask for the contract to cover any use except those which are unlawful or [im…
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@isolyth.dev
@isolyth.dev
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it appears that OpenAI is adopting the same restrictions as Anthropic, or is looking to, though their language is a fair bit softer than Anthropic's here
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@hshaban
Hamza Shaban
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OpenAI's Sam Altman is pursuing a deal with the Pentagon “that allows our models to be deployed in classified environments and that fits with our principles,” he wrote in a note to staff Thursday evening, the WSJ reports [image]