The opinion is quite straightforward, and the evidence on the government's side was entirely nonsense, essentially.<p><a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.465515/gov.uscourts.cand.465515.250.0.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.46...</a>
This is probably as a concise summary as you could get from there:<p>> Defendants have now submitted the administrative record justifying those actions. The record is slim. A four-page memorandum, which post dates two of the three challenged actions, provides the entirety of the government’s rationale. Defendants have now backed away from the thrust of their risk assessment, which relied on Anthropic having backdoor access to its technology once deployed in a national security system. It is now clear that Anthropic undisputedly lacks any such access and that, as Defendants concede, Anthropic’s technology is itself no riskier to the national security than any other “black box” artificial intelligence model
Like so many of this administration's actions, unfortunately...
Presumably this is going to lead to anthropic getting a big payday from the US gov for all the time their flagship product was banned and all the users they lost due to it
When this administration is done we need to amend the constitution to hold politicians legally and financially responsible for intentionally lying and intentionally breaking the law. This was obviously illegal on its face and yet there is no consequence to pushing the norms.
Add it to the "but no one's going to do anything about it" pile
It did what it was supposed to - punish an entity that dared not do what the government told them to. It doesn't matter if anthropic gets a payday out of it, the administration doesn't get hurt by that and won't learn any lessons. We need to hold individual politicians and functionaries accountable
Unlawful means absolutely nothing these days.
I don’t know, the $166B in refunds returned to importers after the IEEPA tariffs were ruled unlawful by the Supreme Court seem pretty meaningful
Ya, but that's only going to the corporations. I doubt they are going to send the rest of us a check.
Meaningful for who though, the common person in the country?
Not for stopping damage to the end-payers of those fees.<p>Great for fleecing those end-payers, however.
It's the Gish gallop applied to a legal/legislative system - it just can't keep up with the sheer volume of cases that would need to be brought to curtail even the worst of it and that's assuming that if/when it eventually gets in front of the supreme court that that "august" body actually does curtail it.
Yes - because the system is trying to prevent the flood by piling up sticks instead of removing the source of water.<p>It's in failure mode (intentionally, is my read) because while it might eventually declare "x is not legal" at no point is it discouraging the people who did X (and have now also done y, z, 1, 2, and 3 - all also likely illegal) because there is zero actual accountability at the personal level.<p>If your house is flooding from a broken pipe... you don't bail. You turn the water off.
Right, like the student debt forgiveness. We hate the ones we disagree with and we love the ones we agree with.
"When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."