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		trjordan 51 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We do not think Anthropic should be designated as ... "Red lines" does not mean some philosophical line they will not cross. "Redlines" are edits to a contract, sent by lawyers to the other party they're negotiating with. They show up in Word's Track Changes mode as red strikethrough for deleted content. They are negotiating the specifics of a contract, and Anthropic's contract was overly limiting to the DoD, whereas OpenAI's was not.

mikeryan 51 days ago [–]

That’s not how the term is being used here.

In this case “red lines” as a term is being used as “lines than can not be crossed”

Anthropic wanted guardrails on how their tech was used. DOD was saying that wasn’t acceptable.

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