… The company has built its brand around safety, and has won over many corporate customers and consumers as a result. But it has alienated the current US administration and its effort to maintain model safety risks pushing away the security community and developers who do security work. …
… Governments, especially in the UK and EU, are caught between two modes: pushing on the AI accelerator, or stressing AI safety and governance. Neither approach concerns itself with addressing AI's societal impact. …
… It is also, in my professional opinion, a direct breach of Article 5 3 of Directive 2002/58/EC the ePrivacy Directive as well as a multitude of computer access and misuse laws usually criminal law , on a scale large enough to matter, in a vendor which has spent considerable effort on being perceive… …
… In 2025, it rolled out an AI that it said would trap and waste the time of unauthorized AI scrapers by feeding them endless garbage , and it has previously pushed to require AI bots to pay for access to websites. …
… According to the help page, Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for “a few use cases,” and users “might see a verification prompt when accessing certain capabilities, as part of our routine platform integrity checks, or other safety and compliance measures.” In short, expect to be sudden… …
… Prohibition failed in the United States. I kept reading Playboy, and these days, people use virtual private networks VPN s to get around the restrictions of the UK’s Online Safety Act . …