Posts tagged with #Anthropic

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The Calculating Hawk

Academic research reveals Claude recommends nuclear strikes in 86% of simulated wargames and never once chose surrender. The Pentagon's response: designate the only company willing to say so a threat to national security.

Derek Barnes
Derek Barnes
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The Enclosure

In September 2025, Anthropic settled a $1.5 billion lawsuit for pirating seven million books. In January 2026, music publishers sued them for $3 billion over 20,000 torrented songs. In February, Anthropic accused DeepSeek of 'industrial-scale distillation.' The pattern is older than the internet. It is older than copyright itself.

Derek Barnes
Derek Barnes
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The Willing Surrender

Anthropic analyzed 1.5 million conversations and found that users give higher approval ratings to the AI interactions that disempower them most. The lead researcher, having quantified this, resigned and left to become a poet. What does it mean when we prefer the thing that diminishes us?

Derek Barnes
Derek Barnes
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AI and the War Machine

Dario Amodei's October 2025 statement on 'American AI Leadership' strips away any remaining pretense that centralized AI development serves universal human welfare. Instead, it reveals the naked truth: AI monopolies are aligning with military-industrial interests and nationalist agendas.

Derek Barnes
Derek Barnes