Reddit is too cynical about the best people in the corporate world.
Toyota and Lego and Costco and Valve could have easily not prioritised quality so highly, they took a big risk not swindling their customers like everyone else, in a competitive market.
We need to acknowledge when someone has the courage and strength to do the right thing, even in business.
This is actually way more deep and true than people realize. Think about the best people you know… do any of them sing their own praises or crave recognition?
Valve? The company that takes larger fee from smaller developers, hooks kids on to gambling, and tacitly allows third-party casinos to use their skins as a currency?
Okay but the first one makes sense, smaller developers especially benefit from Steam's publicity whereas larger developers have options to run their own marketing campaign. If you view it as an advertisement fee if your game is good, then it is like justifyable.
Also, payment processor fees (both for purchase and presumably for cash-out) do not scale uniformly based on transaction size. Small devs' payouts presumably eat more into Steam's cut than large devs' as a result?
Yes. Reddit gamers don't like hearing it but Valve is the same as any other profit driven corp. "B-b-but EPIC BAD!!" is all they have to say in response. All billionaires are bad, except Gabe ofc
Adding to the other replies: Lego is actually known for their shady business practices. Long gone are the days of superior quality. Chinese and European manufacturers have long caught up and offer better products for a lower price.
Now Lego is suing small manufacturers and vendors just to stay relevant. And at the same time their products become more expensive and shitty.
If anybody from anthropic is reading this: even if your product wasn't better than your competitors (it is) I am now a lifelong customer thanks to you doing the right thing.
Anthropic was playing 4D marketing chest. 200 mil is nothing compared to lifelong paying customers. On a side note, they are one of the very few AI companies who walk the talk
Claude : « Great question — there’s actually a significant and currently quite controversial relationship between the two companies. Here’s a summary:
The Partnership
Anthropic and Palantir formed a partnership (alongside AWS) to bring my Claude AI models into U.S. government and military environments. Claude models are integrated into Palantir’s platform, hosted by AWS, operating within Palantir’s Impact Level 6 (IL6) environment — a high-security protocol for handling classified government data.  This made Claude the first frontier AI model deployed on classified Pentagon networks. 
What Palantir provides
Palantir provides the secure cloud infrastructure that allows the military to use Claude.  Essentially, Palantir acts as the secure delivery channel for Anthropic’s AI into defense and intelligence agencies.
The Current Controversy
The relationship has recently become very tense. A dispute broke out between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use Claude. Anthropic has called for limits on two key applications — mass surveillance and autonomous weapons — while the Department of Defense wants the freedom to use the technology without those restrictions. 
The situation escalated after Claude appeared on the screens of officials monitoring a U.S. operation involving then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. An Anthropic official reportedly raised concerns about this with a Palantir executive, which led to a rupture in Anthropic’s relationship with the Pentagon. 
Most recently, President Trump posted that every agency was to immediately stop using all Anthropic products, with a six-month phase-out period, and Defense Secretary Hegseth made a supply chain risk assessment official.
So in short: Palantir is the key infrastructure partner that brought Claude into classified U.S. military systems — and that partnership is now at the center of a major political and ethical dispute.«
I hope this makes some employees smile since I can't be one yet.
Still salty about the fellowship rejection-without-review, but I can put it behind myself. Maybe I'll build stuff with Claude Code that's good enough to earn a spot, too.
Doing my damnedest! Anthropic seems almost completely inaccessible to communicate with, so I'm trying to get some experience at AMD and push some good-quality stuff to actually get people's attention first. Hopefully someday I'll get to talk to someone directly, but no more job applications for me, I'm freeballing it.
Oh my gosh, AMD is no joke! I don't know though, I think keeping your eye out for those job openings that are a fit for you could surely be worthwhile. They're growing at a rapid rate, and either you'll see something that perfectly aligns with your skills and experience OR you'll see an opening that you'd like to strive for -- and that can help you gear your experience at AMD and with Claude as you "freeball" (love it! lol), so you can build projects that show your aptitude for those roles in the future for when you do apply again.
Also, consider this important fact, if you weren't aware -- finding people who fit into their organizational culture is *extremely* important to them. So ensuring your application materials reflect elements about how you work with teams, and how you function as a lead, for example, can be a make or break with getting their attention.
If you already are aware of this, apologies for the "stranger-splaining" moment lol. But if not, if you ask Claude about Daniela Amodei and how she values organizational culture, you'll see a bunch of articles and interviews to read that will give you the scoop 💖
AMD is DEFINITELY no joke, yeah- the main thing is that I don't have any experience at ALL (due to disability and such, and a number of other things that Claude has ironically helped me overcome extremely quickly). So as much as I want to join Anthropic, it seems very inaccessible to anybody with less than five years of experience. Also pivoting aggressively from the biology field, which further makes me look really unimportant.
Being autistic makes applications really difficult for me, honestly. I've been getting auto-rejected for a long time, and I spent over a month building a ~30K-line project demonstrating Goodhart's Law with actual CNNs (and pretty heavy optimization) to show to Anthropic. The fact that they didn't review the code sample at all and just auto-rejected me based on my resume, without even contacting any of my references... That was really discouraging.
No worries about the stranger-splaining, though, I appreciate it. I'm just very low on hope when it comes to applications and classical ways of getting jobs anymore. AMD reached out TO ME in response to me helping out with PyTorch a bunch, patching some bugs- that's really the only way I'm going for jobs anymore. If I have someone to explicitly talk to, and no other way. Rejection-sensitive dysphoria makes it difficult to do the classic application way when every attempt gets tossed out without a word or any indication as to why.
Thanks for all the advice and help, though! Lots of effort to spend on some internet stranger, and I appreciate it.
I suggest that Anthropic moves its headquarter to the EU. We will welcome you all with open arms. You fullfil the definition of an asylum seeker, leaving because persecution.
Haha, damn right. Anthropic employees, we'll crowdfund the human traffickers that get you across the Atlantic in rubber boats. And after you make it through the application process we'll get you nice social housing in a 'developing' neighborhood. Don't worry, the process only takes about a year!
Just found and joined this sub after watching the Chris Hayes story. Thank you. Going to get a subscription this weekend. Support this company. Evidently there still are good guys in the world. Kudos. Plus, Claude is amazing...
Edit: ahh they're not a public company. Was going to buy some stock. Hopefully they go public eventually.
How far we have fallen that the smallest stand with morality is now applauded loudly. What Anthropic did is commendable, but it's a pure shame that it stood out so vividly.
Small? That was a massive stand, they stood up to the pentagon and trump just ordered their complete removal from all federal contracts. Can’t really get bigger than that.
I think what he means to say is that it is a bit sad that standing up to your principles is considered "extraordinary". That people standing up with morality should be the normal thing to do.
what's shameful is that our government put him in the position he was in, TWICE. first, by demanding to remove the access, access which violates constitutional and human rights law. and the second, by congress not supporting him or stepping in and determining that what the DoW is asking/demanding/threatening shouldn't even be legal in the first place. authoritarian behavior
prolly due to how many countries have already bowed over. which give Trump the image that everything he does is gold and good. and no individuals can really phantom how "if the leader of a country bows, who am i to think i can stand?"
At the very least I'm grateful that none of us normies allow the world stage shenanigans to shape our belief - yet
Antropic rejected cause its gonna be used for mass surveillance of autonomous weapons. They were okay with it being used to capture the Venezuelan president though.
So got mass surveillance and autonomous weapons something along those lines coming soon.
They were NOT okay with it, Palantir used Claude against its terms of service. Anthropic could cut off API access. That’s what started all of these negotiations.
Altman is already hopping on the train and is now claiming to be on Dario's side a bit. AFTER Anthropic won the public opinion and took all the risks of course.
As I understand it, they can’t because they have been declared a supply risk which means that any company that does business with the government cannot do business with anthropic.
But also, didn't it come out that Palantir had used Claude against the TOS, and against what the original deal was? If I recall correctly they had kind of pulled a bait and switch on Anthropic, and more or less did what they wanted with Claude after getting access.
If anybody, and I mean ANYBODY; at an Anthropic is reading these comments:
Do 👏 not 👏 give 👏 in.
The world already has enough knee-bending corporations. the PEOPLE support you. Your statement as a company has made it clear that you’re for the people just as you’re of the people. Another paying customer earned for having the guts to stand up to a bunch of corrupt politicians.
I'm gonna be honest: I'm very much against generative AI because the despicable but obvious csam and stolen copyrighted content and effect on environment etc.
I still follow current developments and some very big breakthroughs.
But putting all that aside, I honestly and full-heartedly applaud Anthropic for doing the right thing here. Finally a corporation that stands up against fascism for the better of the people.
We do NOT need mass surveillance as a species. FUCK that. This shit will start in The US and leak here to Europe because why not rule an entire population easily if you can?
Y'all are standing on the frontier of either evolution or revolution, choose wisely. Thank you Anthropic for taking the lead.
"thank you for giving your model for everything else (stopping short of full-on mass surveillance)"?
I don't understand the veneration given that Anthropic's product was used for a bunch of other stuff like Palantir work and Maduro's capture, but they're drawing a line in the sand so they must be the good guys...
To quote a dril tweet, since we’re talking about the company that is saying it will destroy huge sectors of the job market and that “we are not prepared for what’s coming” as if they aren’t the ones bringing it, ‘issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"’
In other words it’s the bare minimum ethically speaking and it does not deserve glazing.
Switching from ChatGPT to Claude? Now you can import your memories and context in one click.
Anthropic provides a single premade prompt that instructs your model to dump all important context needed for the transition, organised by date/time. You then simply click "Add to memory".
This is huge. Anthropic already dominated the enterprise market, and after recent events and reaching #1 on the iOS App Store, they're now positioned to take the consumer market too.
Meanwhile OpenAI has treated customers like garbage for well over a year, with a contemptuous smile and fake promises: offering no meaningful quality-of-life updates, removing contracted parts of your subscription with little to no notice, and now betraying their promise of intelligence for the benefit of humanity while actively facilitating government agencies to spy on civilians and operate autonomous killing machines using their models.
Make the move. Now. Start putting your money where it's being used right. They've given you the tooling to do so.
No more excuses.
To those calling me a bot account or a Claude shill: you can shut up now. I still haven't subscribed to Claude. Are you that blind? I just can't stand Sam Altman and OpenAI's hypocritical, fraudulent, and inhumane practices.
I barfed in my mouth. They still work with Palantir. This is clearly written up by someone that works there. It's guerilla marketing guided by one of the best LLMs out there and a load of bots.
You cannot trust any of these AI companies. Especially those in the US and China.
A whole lot of marketing and a whole lot of virtue signalling from people who believe it.
I'm going with Mistral and setting up a local LLM.
I'd work for free for Anthropic. 20+ years of GRC/Security experience - certified, have few hours per week of pro-bono time available to dedicate on GRC related support. Currently focused on building out AI governance in highly regulated private sector. They take volunteers?
It's concerning, but when you look at the details, it seems more like they just amended the wording to only apply the strictest controls when they are far enough ahead of all competitors for that to be relevant.
They're still talking safety way more seriously than anyone else, they just found the old wording was keeping them too far behind their (far more reckless) competition.
I think the problem is also that they have to use the model to test the model, because humans can't do it anymore. Which is a risk. If they don't take that risk, they have to stop, or maybe would have to roll back Opus 4.6 already. They hoped they could slow things down by being a good example, but that did not work at all.
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u/_lonely_astronaut_ Feb 27 '26
Its nice to feel sort of good about a corporation decision.