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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days ago

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days ago
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"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes big after OpenAI's latest move
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After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.
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  • Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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    Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.

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      I mean it’s at least accurate now, there is no defense when you are starting war with everyone

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      They aren’t defending shit

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    I can’t believe people were paying for it in the first place.

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      One more boycott I can’t join because I never touched the company lol

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    The Department of War isn’t a real thing. Its called The Department of Defense. That’s not my opinion either, its officially/legally called The Department of Defense.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.

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    After Anthropic refused flat out to agree to apply Claude AI to autonomous weapons and mass surveillance of American citizens, OpenAI jumps right into bed with the United States Department of War.

    I think people are a little bit missing the important bit. This government wants to send out autonomous weapons along with mass surveillance. They’ll just murder anyone they want, if the AI gets it right in the first place.

    Here we are in Running Man and no one sees it coming. This is why Stephen King is so against this administration. He predicted it.

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.

      Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.

      They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.

      I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.

      OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.

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    huh, I was right all along.

    AI is fascism!

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    “You’re absolutely right! That was a children’s hospital, not a military base. Let’s try that again!”

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    Canada recently has had its 2nd worst school shooting ever. The killer had many interactions with ChatGPT that warranted banning her account. A whistleblower has claimed that they wanted to inform Canada’s police force of these comments but were denied by ChatGPT’s management.

    They had a chance to stop the death of 8 people, most of which were young children, but failed to do anything.

    FUCK CHATGPT AND THOSE BASTARDS THAT RUN IT

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      Why would you not contact police? I understand that this is a systemic failure and blame does not lie with that employee but if others me I’d rather be out of a job than have those deaths on my conscience for the rest of my life.

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        It’s probabilities. If you report it you’re 100% out of a job but only maybe prevented something bad from happening. If you don’t report, you keep your job but maybesomething bad happens. Reliance on a job for survival shifts the decision even further to taking the course of action that’ll keep you your job.

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          That’s a great answer to my question, thanks!

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    Hell, yeah SCAM ALTMAN men can get BENT. I cancelled mine in solidarity with the Feb 13th crowd.

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    So many companies are cozying up to the fascist regime as this is the late stage of capitalism.

    A list of some of these companies: https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2024200204296061089?s=20

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    mainstream

    I’ll believe that when my sisters start saying this. Till then, it’s just us privacy fans screaming in a dark cave, enjoying the echo.

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    They went from standing with Anthropic to throwing them under the bus real fast

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      About half a day.

      Sam Altman headlines

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        They probably have been working on a potential agreement with openai for a while now. They just hastily finished it in response to anthropic. But I don’t know if they will keep the red lines anthropic has demanded in place

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          They won’t.

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      $$$

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
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        Which they badly need, they are in an incredibly risky position right now. It’s very disappointing, this deal might save them from collapse for quite a while.

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    Since this article, Anthropic’s Claude AI app has claimed the #1 top spot over ChatGPT on both Android and iOS.

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      which is weird because they are not any good either

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic#Projects

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        No AI company is, but they’re better than OpenAI in this.

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    I would assume that Anthropic’s stance is mostly performative. But while people are in boycotting mood they could solve the surveillance problem by quitting ALL big tech products. Here’s our site that lists all the ethical, non-spyware alternatives:

    https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html

    (Please share with your friends and family - we have zero marketing budget - thank you!)

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      This site is amazing! Simple and very informative and I really liked the privacy policy last sentence.

      privacy policy

      Seriously, we have no idea that you’re reading this, but we’re glad that you are.

      • Paddy66@lemmy.ml
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        Thank you! Any ideas you have about how we can get the word out are very welcome…

        • ESK (edgy spaz kid)@lemmy.wtf
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          Hm. Meaby make a neocites website but it’s more like indiewebdev community so im not sure about that but meaby there. No clue sorry but keep it up!

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    You should also stop using Google products for similar reasons.

    • Kissaki@feddit.org
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      Did they make contracts with them?

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        They have multiple contracts in the military sector.

        For example: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-wins-200m-contract-with-us-department-of-defense/

        https://defensescoop.com/2025/12/09/genai-mil-platform-dod-commercial-ai-models-agentic-tools-google-gemini/

        https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2022/12/amazon-google-microsoft-oracle-awarded-9b-pentagon-cloud-contract/380596/

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        https://x.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175

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          Wait I’m confused. Sam Altman is OpenAI right? And he says the DoW agreed to work with them but with the same prohibitions that Anthropic wanted?

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            Yes, that’s what I read elsewhere. No guarantees in contract. So you can consider this to be bullshit or marketing. Even if it’s verbal agreements now, you can be sure they won’t matter.

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