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upvoteby legitster31 minutes ago|
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The Anti-Trust act makes it illegal for business to conspire to restrict markets.

Anthropic is engaging in some product engineering to level set their offerings against each other.

I'm not sure I am understanding the connection you are trying to make.

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upvoteby jdale2722 minutes ago|
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The implication of the comment is that Anthropic is limiting the capabilities of their external models to prevent other companies from building models that can compete with Claude, and that this constitutes anticompetitive behavior under the law.
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upvoteby legitster12 minutes ago|
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> Anthropic is limiting the capabilities of their external models to prevent other companies from building models that can compete with Claude.

Uhhhh... that seems like quite a logical leap. "The only reason Apple doesn't release a faster phone is so other companies can't copy it."

Antitrust generally does not compel companies to make product lineup decisions, especially if the industry itself is acting quite competitively.

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upvoteby guelo24 minutes ago|
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1. Anthropic is not coordinating with competitors so there's no "conspiracy"

2. Anthropic doesn't have much market power. The competition is intense.

3. Anthropic doesn't have a legal requirement to provide it's strongest internal model to competitors.

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upvoteby bobajeff40 minutes ago|
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>...shall be punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

Wow, I believe violating Section 1201 of the DMCA carries a stiffer penalty these days.

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upvoteby nateb202229 minutes ago|
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In 2026 dollars, $5,000 1890 would be around $185,131.87. I guess they didn't foresee inflation working against the fine.
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upvoteby guelo28 minutes ago|
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That quote is from the original 1890 text. The statute has been amended and criminal violations are now felonies with bigger penalties including $100 million fines and 10 years in jail.
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upvoteby actionfromafar43 minutes ago|
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That was for a different, less civilized time full of very rich people, so called "robber barons".
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upvoteby vondur26 minutes ago|
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Didn't they have the cool mustaches that you can twirl around and look cool?
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upvoteby markus_zhang37 minutes ago|
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I guess we are going back to that era with a different flavour.
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upvoteby combobyte22 minutes ago|
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An oligarch by any other name, something something...
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upvoteby combobyte45 minutes ago|
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> punished by fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by both said punishments, in the discretion of the court.

Something tells me that's not gonna do much to dissuade the AI cartels...

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