• XLE@piefed.social
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    9 hours ago

    “Anthropic publicly praised President Trump’s AI Action Plan,” said CEO Dario Amodei.

    “We have been supportive of the President’s efforts to expand energy provision in the US in order to win the AI race,” he continued, apparently talking about Trump’s new anti green energy, pro fossil fuel program.

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      7 hours ago

      yes… mine was just a play on the title of this post.

      Look, I’m not saying that Amodei is a saint and I do find him as full of shit as Altman with their AGI promises, but would you expect Anthropic to take a stand against increasing AI investment, because it’s coming from Trump? And I don’t like that he went looking for funding in the Middle East either.

      I just think there is an ethical line between “I do business with people who do bad things” and “I’m actively helping people who do bad things to do them in a more efficient way”. It might be a fine line and it might also be that they are just posturing, but it’s still more than other companies did (companies that are a lot richer than Anthropic and that don’t need to find a lot of funding just to stay afloat).

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        7 hours ago

        My reply was a continuation of your joke, just using Dario’s actual words. My point is that he too lacks a conscience (see also, the other links I’ve posted)