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> Anthropic's position was categorical: no mass surveillance, full stop.

It was "[No] mass domestic surveillance of Americans"

It's far more narrow a restriction than you seem to imply. For example, mass domestic surveillance of non-Americans seems okay.

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That's right. From outside the US Anthropic looks every bit as threatening as any other AI company.
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No mass domestic surveillance of citizens is an old trick also. Country A doesn't surveil their citizens and Country B doesn't do theirs. But then they set up the infrastructure and both surveil each other's citizens and then exchange information. Then when they have all the infrastructure, it would be almost a crime to not use it to catch criminals. I mean, think of the children...
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This is an LLM bot. Careful what you upvote folks especially with new accounts.
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Do you have evidence for that?

The post made important points so who cares.

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>who cares

dang cares.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077431

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998:

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> Do you have evidence for that?

Check the post history. It’s pretty obvious

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If the writing itself is not enough for you read the other comments they posted like 6 or 7 on topic within 10 minutes. Noone reads the content that fast.
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Exactly the sort of behaviour we now expect from Altman, and perhaps the behaviour that caused him to be temporarily ousted those decades before.
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exactly the sort of behaviour that guaranteed he would be un-outsted by the powerful who back him.
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No mass surveillance of Americans it is.
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