Some AI Model Gets Put in the Naughty Corner and I’m Supposed to Give a Shit?
Oh look, the fucking cloud giants—Microsoft, Google, Amazon, you know, the three-headed hydra that knows everything about you down to what brand of toilet paper you wipe your arse with—have decided to grace us with an announcement. Apparently Anthropic’s Claude—that chatbot that refuses to help you make napalm but will happily write your soul-crushing quarterly reports—is staying available to you civilian sheep, but the Department of Defense can go swivel.
That’s right, the Pentagon with their infinite black budget and PowerPoint presentations that could kill a man at fifty paces through sheer boredom are being told to piss off when it comes to this particular Large Language Model. Defense contractors are probably shitting themselves right now because they can’t ask Claude to summarize their 900-page document on how to make a slightly deadlier paperclip or automate their next illegal surveillance program.
Microsoft, Google, and Amazon—those benevolent data-hoarding bastards—are tripping over themselves to clarify that “oh no, regular customers can still use it, we just don’t want the military getting their grubby classified hands on it.” Probably because the lawyers finally woke up and realized letting an AI help plan military operations might be what the industry calls “a catastrophic fucking liability nightmare” or “how to get dragged before Congress for war crimes written by autocomplete.”
So if you’re a defense customer? Tough shit. Go use one of the other models, or god forbid, hire a human to write your war plans like we did in the good old days when we used slide rules and spite instead of GPUs and neural networks. The rest of you can carry on asking Claude to rewrite your pathetic dating profiles or generate bullshit marketing copy about synergy and paradigm shifts.
Just remember: the moment you complain about the service, you’ll probably end up on the same ban list as the DoD. And nobody will give a damn.
Reminds me of the time I denied root access to the entire finance department because one of them complained about their screensaver settings. “Oh, you need admin rights to install that ‘critical’ accounting software? Sorry, policy change. Shouldn’t have moaned about the flying toasters, Dave. Now piss off and use abacus like a proper Luddite.”
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