This amendment helps, especially closing the commercial broker loophole and ruling out the intelligence agencies explicitly. I note 'U.S. persons or nationals' does not include foreign nationals in the US and would like to see this include immigrants. I also appreciate that we now are saying it doesn't include domestic surveillance even if it is not 'mass'. And if they want to enshrine current law I would make that language more explicit.
(I would have many other notes, but it's tough when you can't see the contract terms and I'm moving fast here.)
I also very much appreciate the admission that, as I pointed out, they rushed into this, and agreeing on Friday was a mistake. And the implicit admission that some of the OAI claims made over the weekend about the contract were wrong, hence the fixes. I am very happy to see DoW not say 'no takesies backsies' and agree to adjust to fix issues, that's a great sign that a trust basis can work.
The best sign of good faith would, of course, be to take SCR on Anthropic off the table, and simply terminate Anthropic's contract, if necessary with the additional limited steps suggested by to apply to contractors and subcontractors.
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Sam Altman
@sama
Here is re-post of an internal post:
We have been working with the DoW to make some additions in our agreement to make our principles very clear.
1. We are going to amend our deal to add this language, in addition to everything else:
"• Consistent with applicable laws,
