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  • Anthropic/Dept of War

    From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to All on Fri Feb 27 18:31:00 2026
    I just heard today that "Trump is very upset with Anthropic" because of their unwillingness to allow the Department of War to use their AI models for military use and that he's "not going to give them any government contracts."

    I love President Trump, but who TF does he think he's dealing with? It's the ultra-left. (Think non-alcoholic vodka.)

    I would recommend Anthropic over all other public-use AI providers to businesses and to just about anybody, except for the Trump administration. I thought that we (MAGA) had AI buddies somewhere else, but I was wrong.

    This is actually a very, very bad thing. We NEED a MAGA-aligned AI company, and we DON'T have one. We (the MAGA BBS people) should get to work on it, but there are companies those I mentioned who are decades ahead of us. :(

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  • From Ron L.@1:120/616 to Aaron Thomas on Sat Feb 28 06:51:02 2026
    Aaron Thomas wrote to All <=-

    This is actually a very, very bad thing. We NEED a MAGA-aligned AI company, and we DON'T have one. We (the MAGA BBS people) should get to work on it, but there are companies those I mentioned who are decades ahead of us. :(

    All AI models are biased based on what they are trained on.

    Some topics, like software development, are harder to have a bias because it's easy to see what works and what doesn't.

    In other topics, especially ones that are "softer", that bias can show throw. Sometimes overly (remember when Google's AI was generating pictures of George Washington as black?) but mostly very quietly.

    IHMO: I would not use any commercial AI system for defense work. They should pay Elon for a copy of Grok and re-train it on good media.



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  • From Aaron Thomas@1:342/201 to Ron L. on Sat Feb 28 08:16:46 2026
    All AI models are biased based on what they are trained on.

    Some topics, like software development, are harder to have a bias
    because it's easy to see what works and what doesn't.

    In other topics, especially ones that are "softer", that bias can show throw. Sometimes overly (remember when Google's AI was generating pictures of George Washington as black?) but mostly very quietly.

    IHMO: I would not use any commercial AI system for defense work. They should pay Elon for a copy of Grok and re-train it on good media.

    They work based on what they're trained on, but they also know how to be creative, and they can figure things out faster than humans. You're right that a commercial system shouldn't be used for defense. We need a truly MAGA AI model that will spit it out when we ask it how to defend ourselves in certain scenarios. Not have it say "The question you asked violates our community standards."

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