They’ve also indicated they’re willing to use the Defense Production Act to force you into slavery for political reasons. They didn’t pull the trigger on that here, but this is now a threat to any American company/employee.
No, they declared them a supply chain vulnerability and that all companies that do business with the DoD are forbidden from doing business with Anthropic.
What that means in terms of AWS and Google Cloud being DoD contractors and being used to serve Anthropic’s models is still unclear. Potentially this means they can’t.
This is not just justification, this was extortion, and now is them doing their best to destroy this company for standing up to them.
So they signed a contract, decided they don't like the terms, now they're trying to extort Anthropic and gaslighting to claim Anthropic is strong arming them?
In essence, while the bill doesn't seem to require the most egregious forms of age verification (face scans or similar), it does require OS providers to collect age verification of some form at the account/user creation stage—and to be able to pass a segmented version of that information to outside developers upon request.
As much as I hate this, just filling in a drop down on OS install is fine with me. This is the ideal solution. Tell your kid’s device it’s for a kid, then use the default age restrictions correctly. That’s perfectly fine to me.
Anything to avoid evil age verification services that force deanonymization through every app and service.
I do still hold a strong reservation against these age locks — how long until the US deems LGBTQ and teaching about slavery as “mature” topics?
So even if you had a nice well attributed vector database for encoder only search (fancy AI fingerprinting), there’s going to be a lot of false positives.
Yes, you can keep digging to find more revealing details, but the haystack of where you cross reference to/from gets harder to use. Plus, you assume their other profiles match their interests, which for Hacker News probably works, but if I want to find arbitrary people I doubt it.
So this all comes down to how many breadcrumbs do you leave on the internet. Someone could use this to correlate my Steam username and PSN username, but neither actually link to my other accounts.
This is fraud.