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avaer
> There are no virtuous participants in the artificial intelligence race

A bit of an insulting way to start the article.

Plenty of researchers and smaller companies would disagree, but they won't get articles written about them because they're not embroiled in DOW killbot drama.

We might not be in this situation if all of this money was given to them instead.

JohnTHaller
The AI race refers to the big companies that through shady tactics are currently in the 'lead'. None of them are virtuous.
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ssl-3
"DOW" here is an acronym for Department of War, and really should be fully capitalized in the title.
system2
Only liberals. HN partially, and Reddit in general. Average Joe doesn't hear these things. Here is my proof. I go to a dog park every morning and talk to people, and you might know how close you get at the parks with casuals. I asked around about this subject this morning. Absolutely no one knew about it. And these people are working in relatively techy workplaces. Most people I spoke to this morning said something similar to "yeah, cool, USA should get the most of the tech they can to fight the bad guys".

This is an echo chamber. Nothing more.

Simulacra
This article makes no sense. ChatGPT is a search engine and knowledge base with an anthropomorphic front end. It's Google with human characteristics. I think, IMHO, people take AI way too seriously and see in it a boogeyman to conquer.
andy_ppp
I know this is very picky but I find the font choices of Claude quite distracting and difficult to read. I might try Gemini but the Trump admin would probably force Google to sell YouTube to Larry Ellison so they will capitulate. Are any of the Chinese frontier models available on neutral infrastructure?
andy_ppp
So about the font thing... now the content of chats uses the default font but the UI all uses anthropicSans which is horrible and also causes a clash as two fonts that are extremely similar fall into a weird uncanny valley for me. I wish the setting to choose a font was across the whole UI.
jedberg
It’s DoD. It’s still not officially changed. But if you insist on using the nickname it should be DoW.
siva7
Says windowscentral.com... People outside of Big Tech haven't heard of Anthropic nor do they care about this dispute. What normal poeple might have heard is probably more something along the lines of Anthropic and supply-chain-risk and unpatriotic...
journal
I refuse to use anything but OpenAI API.
firefoxd
One thing to take into account, this will now be a large source of revenue for them. You thought you would get away with the free tier, but now as a tax payer, we are all funding it.
cpeterso
And they can get “too build to fail” bailouts from the US government after they are dependent on ChatGPT.
nialv7
i don't have an openai subscription, but i still want to participate
mickle00
Great to see this going mainstream
Jordan-117
*DoD

Headline makes it sound like Dow Chemical/Jones.