Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models (msn.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/13/2227234/amazon-ceos-talks-with-us-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models
- Source link: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/amazon-ceo-s-talks-with-us-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models/ar-AA25yS3I
> The Trump administration's decision to [2]halt all foreign use of Anthropic's most capable AI models was prompted by conversations between Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy and U.S. officials including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, people familiar with the matter said.
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> Researchers at Amazon had used a series of prompts to get Anthropic's Fable 5 model to provide them with information that could be used to aid cyberattacks and was supposed to be off limits, Jassy told the officials, according to people familiar with the matter. Tech industry executives have been in regular touch with the administration about the power of cutting-edge AI tools. Shortly afterward, White House officials held a meeting to discuss how to respond and security researchers began testing Amazon's claims. The officials asked Anthropic to fix the vulnerabilities or take down the model, according to administration officials. The officials decided that the most direct way to address that risk was by preventing foreign governments, companies and individuals from accessing the tool, the people said. President Trump later signed off on the action despite reservations about it hindering innovation, a senior White House official said.
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> The administration had long felt that Anthropic, one of the [3]leaders in America's AI race , couldn't be trusted to manage the security risks its new model presented. Friday's call between some administration officials and Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei reinforced that feeling, the people said...
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> Anthropic has said that the vulnerabilities like those flagged by Amazon are relatively basic. The company has said that other publicly available models are capable of discovering them and that they don't represent a full so-called jailbreak, a point of view shared by some security researchers familiar with Amazon's research.
The article points out that Amazon is "a [4]big investor in Anthropic , supply Anthropic with chips for data centers.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/amazon-ceo-s-talks-with-us-officials-triggered-crackdown-on-anthropic-models/ar-AA25yS3I
[2] https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/13/0546258/anthropic-suspends-all-mythos-and-fable-access-after-us-order-limiting-foreign-access
[3] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-week-anthropic-tanked-the-market-and-pulled-ahead-of-its-rivals-ef59dff1
[4] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-amazon-tighten-bond-in-5-billion-investment-and-computing-deal-b9d8e513
Random ass "decisions" (Score:2)
Yep, definitely some tech (and country) to rely on.
Re:Random ass "decisions" (Score:5, Informative)
The story is pure spin. If there was any truth in what's being said then all LLMs would be banned. The real story is one of pick-on-Anthropic.
Re: (Score:2, Troll)
It's not random at all, you just need to rephrase the headline as "Company that paid $40 million movie bribe to Trump gets competitor's AI partially shut down".
Missing from the article (Score:2)
What is missing from the article: did they check whether other AI models also do the same? Or did they just go after Anthropic?
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The risk equation is:
risk = offensive_capability * jailbreakability
According to Anthropic's own doom-saying, Mythos could literally end the whole-wide world overnight with a series of catastrophic, hypercane level cyberattacks. Currently, Fable 5 and Mythos are the only Mythos-class models available publicly. Thus, even if other models have high jailbreakability, the risk level is down-regulated by having lesser offensive_capability. Again, this is according to *Anthropic.* Obviously, jail-breaking GPT 3.5
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I think this is Anthropics BS overmarketing of its product coming back to bite it squarely in the arse.
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Well considering how bad most software is, it might be able to do some damage. But competent humans are much more of a threat.
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I believe you make a valid point here. But you seem to assume that the actions of the administration are based on facts and not done out of vengeance. Given that Trump is a mafia boss, is that assumption correct?
In any case, restricting its use to American citizens only is likely difficult - people entering social security numbers into Claude to get access perhaps? Or requiring national security clearance? And we're just at the beginning of the AI boom, this kind of ban will only be effective for a short t
Brides (Score:2)
You can just say bribes. We all know it's bribes so you can just say bribes. Bezos out bid Amodei.
It's going to be weird if we ever become a democracy again not seeing a headline involving an obvious quid pro quo bribe every day. There are Latin American dictatorships that would take a look at what Trump's doing and say hey buddy, tone it down a bit.
I would take this admins (Score:2)
concerns about AI safety far more seriously if they were equally concerned about the risks that Grok poses because of its tendency to spew nazi propoganda and it’s world-class capability at generating revenge porn.
Well, Bessent is an idiot, so (Score:2)
If Bessent is involved, and taken at all seriously,
then here's no truth or insight to be found with any of them.
Just more banditry.
And???? (Score:2)
nslookup will give you information useful for cyberattacks. lets see Bessent try to make that US only.
What about domestic use? (Score:3)
What about domestic use? Can we halt that too?
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All use has been halted as of now because there's now good way to determine which users are domestic or not.