alt Hacker NewsI hope Anthropic will survive this. If they don’t it will just be perfect proof that you cannot be both moral and successful in the US.
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Most survive by bending. See e.g. Google and surveillance a decade ago.
From a revenue perspective I think they’ll be fine, right? Weren’t the value of the govt contracts $200m out of like $14b revenue?
Assuming the govt doesn’t take other crazy measures to punish them.
Anthropic has enough investment money and enough additional investor interest that they can ride this out longer than this administration. It won’t be good for business, of course, but it’s not the end of their world.
> it will just be perfect proof that you cannot be both moral and successful in the US.
I hate this situation as much as anyone, but it’s a unique, first of its kind challenge. I don’t think it’s generalizable to anything. This is a unique situation.
The only way they survive is if their board fires the CEO and they bend the knee. The other option is they are given the green light to sell to one of the US Governments trusted partners: Microsoft/Oracle/X.
Either way, the bribes will flow like wine, the message has been sent loud and clear
>> you cannot be both moral and successful in the US.
I assumed the use of massive scraped datasets, with copyrighted material and without consent, to train large AI models, had already established this.
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Who cares whether the "company" survives? I've seen this movie. A few of them in fact. We're on the chopping block here, lol.