"The government is certainly owed deference on weighty issues of national security. But Defendants’ contemporaneous words and deeds confirm that the challenged actions were based on a desire to make a public example out of Anthropic for its 'arrogance' in criticizing the government, not based on any articulable basis to believe that Anthropic would actually sabotage its model." https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379655/250/anthropic-pbc-v-us-department-of-war/ #Anthropic #DoD #DoW
"Even now, the government is discussing collaboration with Anthropic on its new model, Mythos, in an array of sensitive contexts. None of that is consistent with a genuine fear that Anthropic is a saboteur who would poison its software to harm national security."
"Though the Department of War is undisputedly free to select the AI vendor of its choice, the evidence demonstrates that the broad measures imposed on Anthropic were illegal and baseless."
"The empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics." And that's just in the first 2 pages.
@johns One early opimiom from the court noted in a footnote that it was actually the DoD but they would use DoW. I guess you pick your battles