>This is transparent revenge for them daring to try and push back a little on enabling war crimes.
Anthropic wasn't pushing back on enabling war crimes. They said they didn't want the models to work with autonomous weapons because the the models weren't good enough.
Arguably it’s a worse (or different) war crime to knowingly target people incompetently and thus kill more innocent civilians. In this respect, they showed themselves against one war crime. Not “war crimes” in general but a specific misuse of ai in war.
That's pushing back. The regime doesn't care if the models are good enough, they want the optics of killing lots of people using cutting edge tech, they don't really care if it's the right people.
Whether you or me or Anthropic think it was pushing back or not is besides the point.
I can agree on revenge, but it's important to not paint it as a good vs evil when it isn't.