Hey everybody, how's it going? Hope

you're having a lovely day. Today I want

to have a conversation about anthropics

relationship with the US government and

what this means for you and why I am

going to do my best to construct this

video in a way where even if you want to

hit X because of a certain reason, you

will listen to the entire thing. I may

fail at this. I will try. And I will

also go over my political biases as I go

through this video because that is

definitely going to come up at some

point. and it's important to address

these things head-on honestly for the

future of the the content that you're

going to watch from me. So, first things

first, I wanted to dig into a little a

few things here. So, a few months ago,

Anthropic was considered a supply chain

risk. Being a supply chain risk means

that you cannot do business with other

companies that do business with the

government. So, let's say that I am a

government contractor. Let's say I do uh

data recovery for whatever reason. If

the Pentagon wanted to send a drive to

me for recovery, I mean, not that that's

going to happen, but let's say they did.

If that happened and I used claw code on

my website, I would not be able to be a

government contractor because I'm using

claw code. They put together a situation

where I would be forced to choose

whether I want to keep my government

contracts and use somebody else or use

cloud code. Now, the reason they did

this is because there was a disagreement

between the Department of War and

Anthropic over how to use their models.

Anthropic said, "Here, you can use our

stuff. It's just we're not going to give

it to you in a way where you can use it

for fully autonomous weapons or for

domestic mass surveillance. We're not

going to give it to you with no

safeguards against that." And I thought

that that was a very very reasonable and

very lukewarm take. Keep in mind what

what they're saying there. They're not

saying that you can't use our stuff for

semi-autonomous weapons. You could

totally use it for semi-autonomous

weapons. They're not saying that you

can't use it for fully autonomous

weapons in the future. They were not

saying that we believe that we that

morally fully autonomous weapons are

wrong. They're simply saying that our

clanker is not yet capable of that. And

when I see for myself how much Opus or

even Fable were able to do when I was

able to use it and how much it gets

right and how much it gets wrong, I

wouldn't trust this stuff to empty

Blackberry's litter box, much less with

actual tasks of war, but that's another

topic altogether. Now, I found this to

be petty and I'm going to explain why.

The whole concept of being a supply

chain risk, let's say the majority of my

money or all of my funding came from

countries where the US is is an

adversary and like there's reason to

believe that I'm spying on you or that

I'm a double agent. That's what that's

for. It's not for we had a minor

contractual disagreement on how to use

the software. And I saw that as a

pattern of something I see in this

administration where it's the whole like

you punched me, I'm going to punch you

twice as hard. But I don't see it in

that way. I kind of see it as you didn't

give me everything that I wanted.

Therefore, I am going to have a tantrum

on the playground. And I thought that

that was very very counterproductive,

especially since this administration

talks about AI dominance and want to win

the AI race and everything else. Now,

recently what they did was they said

that if you are a foreign national,

you're not going to be able to use the

newest models. And this is something

that I thought was really a mess for a

number of reasons. The US government,

citing national security authorities,

has issued an export control directive

to suspend all access to Fable 5 and

Mythos 5. These are the new models by

any foreign national, whether inside or

outside the United States, including

foreign national anthropic employees. To

be clear, I have no sympathy for

Anthropic here. Anthropic is a company

that has said that their models are so

dangerous they can't even release them

yet as part of their PR campaign up

before their IPO. They've also said that

they think that the United States

government should have the ability, any

government should be able to ban AIs

that they deem dangerous. They're doing

that so that they can continue to virtue

signal that they're the company that

really cares about safety and security.

So if you live by the sword, you die by

the sword. If you want to say that your

model is so dangerous we can't even

release it yet while simultaneously

saying that we care so much about safety

that the government should be able to

ban models, don't be surprised when that

backfires on you, especially when you're

saying this at the same time that you

don't have a great relationship with the

government. So to be clear, no love loss

for Anthropic here. But that doesn't

mean that I think that this is a good

thing just because I don't have sympathy

for Anthropic for a number of reasons.

Number one, as I've said in my other

videos, I've tried a bunch of these

different models and I've noticed that

Opus 4.8 8 and especially Fable is by

far one of the most capable for a number

of different tasks. So if we're really

trying to focus on getting ahead of

every other country, if we are building

AI data centers everywhere to the

opposition of the people that live in

those areas, if we're saying that we

don't even care if the air is clean in

those areas, you can run [ __ ] gas

turbines as much as you want. You can

destroy the air and the water and

everything else just to try and be 1%

ahead of China, but then we're going to

kneecap one of the primary leaders in

the United States that's moving towards

this over petty [ __ ] Pick a lane.

You can't really do something like this

without when most of the AI researchers

that work for these companies are

foreign born for almost every company.

But more importantly, it's really

difficult for me to believe that this is

happening in a bubble like that that

Grock and OpenAI and Gemini and

everybody else is not getting this type

of scrutiny whereas Anthropic is. And

like this is just my this is my opinion.

My opinion is some petty [ __ ] over what

happened in February. And I think that

Anthropic is getting looked at

differently than every other company.

And I think that there are a number of

different examples of the administration

treating people differently based on

whether or not they do what the

administration wants. I I' I've noticed

this type of like preschoolish behavior.

And it's a pattern that I don't like.

Now, why is this a concern to me? How do

you tell whether or not somebody is a

foreign national in order to use it?

This [ __ ] Identity verification on

Claude. Being responsible with powerful

technology starts with knowing who is

using it. Identity verification helps us

prevent abuse and force usage policies

and blah blah blah. So, a valid

government issued photo ID, a phone with

a or a computer with a camera. So,

you're just going to take a picture of

yourself with your ID in hand. It's

going to get sent off to Persona, which

is a company that's funded by the Peter

Theal who also made made Palunteer. That

that's I don't I don't like that. A lot

of you in my audience hate age

verification. You hate the idea of

having to show your papers to use things

on the internet. When Google and Leos

came out, you didn't have to use your ID

to be able to get access to them.

There's a number of different things

that you don't have to show your ID to

get access to, but now you have to show

your ID to be able to use Discord or

Facebook or [ __ ] like Spotify. It's

nuts. And you're right to push back

against it. But I think you also have to

notice that even if you despise

Anthropic as a company, that this type

of [ __ ] is going to then speedrun

companies like Anthropic, shoving all

this age verification companies that are

funded by the people that fund Palunteer

sucking up your data

in order to be in compliance with this.

And I don't even necessarily blame

Anthropic if they go all the way through

with this. I blame our government and I

blame the pettiness involved in our

government while doing this. Now, when I

talked about anthropic in the last

video, and I talked about the Trump

administration's policies back and forth

in the last two videos, there are many

people that talked and use word acronyms

like TDS or Trump derangement syndrome

and things like that. So, I thought I

would it would be worthwhile to just be

honest about my political biases when

I'm going over these issues in the

channel and where I stand. So, for many

people, I would see TDS show up or oh my

god, he can never say something like he

always has to say something about Trump

in the video. I just found that to be

really interesting. So, I'm just going

to show you some of the videos that I've

done over the years. This video over

here is New York legislators voted in

their own $32,000 pay raise. Uh you you

know the party that's in power there and

you see what I thought next. Uh in

Missouri when there was a right to

repair bill being promoted at the same

time that my nonprofit started funding

it. There was this thing who's really

behind the right to repair legislation

and it's funded by George Soros of the

Open Society Foundation. Just to be

clear, I do not have George Soros money.

I wish I had some George Soros money. I

would take that money and I would put it

into all sorts of [ __ ] that he [ __ ]

hates. To be clear, I have cash checks

from John [ __ ] Dear before. They have

a program where employees can donate to

nonprofits and they will match. I have

cashed John Deere checks to lobby

against John Deere. I don't give a [ __ ]

who's given the money. I will take it

and do what I want. But I wish I had

George Soros money. I don't have any

George Soros money.

I've talked about the prime minister in

Malaysia. I have no idea what party this

man is even from. I have no clue about

the politics in Malaysia. I just know

that banning public DNS sounded [ __ ]

stupid. So, I went over that. I've gone

over my aggravation with my local city

council, mostly Democrat. Uh they're

playing games and I've had enough. And

we actually staged a two or three hour

walk-in in the middle of a work session

because I felt like we were being [ __ ]

around. In the EU, there was this one

commissioner that said that they thought

that you could sniff encrypted

communications like a dog at the

airport. This is one of the [ __ ]

stupidest politicians or bureaucrats

I've ever heard in my life. I don't know

what party she's from. I don't care. I

think I think it's very stupid. Uh, this

is a video that I did on Joe Biden's

administration destroying right to

repair in the most corrupt way possible

after one of the chief assistant legal

counsel at Nitsa said that complying

with right to repair would make things

less safe. This was my mayor in New York

City when he said that I needed to fire

people if they did not get a COVID

vaccine. You could see I I was not a fan

of Mr. Delasio there. This was this was

Mayor Delasio, another Democrat who was

bragging about destroying working bikes.

So instead of selling them into a state

where they're not illegal, instead of

actually giving them to people who may

be able to make good use of them, it's

just we're going to destroy them just to

show the citizens like [ __ ] you. I don't

know what party she is. I don't know if

she's Republican or libertarian, I

forget. But this woman over here laughed

at everybody who showed up to this right

to repair hearing and a farmer who

wanted right to repair actually ran

against her. He was a Republican, Tom

Brandt, and took her job. I thought this

is great. So we dunked on her. This is a

Republican in Alaska who tanked right to

repair. We kind of threw him under a bus

here. This video went over Nebraska

farmers getting [ __ ] and it was mostly

Republicans who voted against right to

repair in this particular instance.

My channel's been up for 14 years and

for the most part I have bashed in a

bipartisan fashion almost every

administration and sometimes I'm talking

about politicians or bureaucrats who

were appointed by part I don't even know

the party that they're from because I've

never even been to that country. My bias

is I point out things that I think that

are [ __ ] and I I'm going to try to

build a bridge here. I I understand if

you have pe I understand where some of

this comes from because I see this in my

comments sometimes where people will

really defend people in the current

administration. Not like they're a

politician that I voted for but I'm

going to hold them to a standard. I'll

often see the back and forth be like

they feel like they're being insulted

personally. Like when I say something

about this administration, they people

in my comments will act like I am

insulting their mother. And I'll read

the comment and I'll just be very very

shocked at how sensitive the person in

the comment was and how emotionally

affected they were by me saying anything

about the current administration. I'm

going to try to build a bridge here. I

could understand how it is annoying when

people who are to your political left

will make up things about you and

denigrate you. And I understand how you

feel like the current administration is

like is on your side and they don't hate

you and they're on your side so like I'm

I'm going to try to defend them when

they do something wrong. I can kind of

get where that comes from. Like there

are a lot of people on Reddit that don't

like one thing that I said. So instead

of engaging with the thing that I said,

they make up something that I never said

to try and make it seem like I am this

evil bastard psychor right-wing crazy

person. And they'll do these little

weird pot shots where they'll just say

some crazy [ __ ] that's not true that'll

get 500 up votes and then delete the

post the moment that I prove that they

were just making it up. Like this

happens all the time. Like this guy says

this. No, I actually have a bunch of

proof of the exact opposite being true.

U happens here too. And like this has

happened to me a number of different

times where somebody will make something

up about me that is absolutely 120% not

true and then they delete the comment

the moment that they get called out for

it. I think that people that get really

[ __ ] offended anytime I criticize

something that the Trump administration

has done, they look at it like Trump's

sticking up for me. He's not like one of

these people that not only hates me for

who I am, but also makes me out to be

something that I'm not to other people

just to try and get other people to pile

on and hate me. So, I have to defend him

because I'm all in on him. And what I

would say to that is it's very doable to

despise the people who do the cowardly,

lame, pathetic, passive aggressive

[ __ ] that I pointed out in this post

while simultaneously maintaining your

own identity. I'm not a Trump voter. I

don't think that he's a good leader. I

don't think he takes accountability,

responsibility for everything. And

there's just too many times that he has

said something where I actually go to do

independent research and try and verify

it to figure out what he's talking about

and it's just like not even like a

little bit not true, but just crazily

not true to the point where I just don't

trust him. That is my political bias.

However, I have been saying [ __ ] about

politicians on this channel for 14

[ __ ] years. Those are only a couple

of the examples I was able to bring up

because I'm late for a meeting and I

don't have the time to go through it.

But I'm sure if you go through the four

or 5,000 videos I have in this channel

from 2012 to the present, there's got to

be at least three or 4 hund of them

where I am just taking an individual

politician or a bureaucrat that they

elected and shredding them. And it's

because I just don't like [ __ ] What

I would ask of all of you is if you

don't want to live in a world where you

need to show your ID and your passport

and prove that you're a [ __ ] citizen

so that you could use a search engine

someday that you push back against this

and that you do not make excuses for it.

the amount of people that were making

excuses in the comments of my past video

and acting and reacting emotionally

using acronyms like TDS when the last 14

years of my channel has literally just

been shredding whoever the [ __ ] does

something stupid like does it matter

which administration's [ __ ] doing it.

It disappointed me because if we are

fighting over this, if you're thinking

like, I don't like this person on Reddit

that says nasty [ __ ] about me from this

party, so I'm automatically going to

defend everything my party does because

it's an obligation, then we are going to

live in a world where we have a flock

camera shoved up your ass. We're going

to live in a world where logging into

your computer requires that you show

your passport and your ID. And I say,

[ __ ] that world, regardless of which

party is pushing for it. If you've met

me in person at any sort of event or you

know me personally, you know that I can

figure out a way to talk with and get

along with virtually anybody regardless

of who they vote for. I'm not the person

who's going to [ __ ] on you for your

beliefs. But I'm also not going to

cuddle any particular administration,

any particular politician, any

particular person they hire because of

one side or the other if I think they've

done something stupid. And if you want

to watch a channel that is a safe space

for your particular elected official,

you're on the wrong channel. I don't do

that here. I I never will. And if I

start doing that, like for the love of

God, [ __ ] unsubscribe. The thing is,

if you allow those types of people to

get to you, if you allow them to change

the way you think, if you allow them to

change what policies you defend that you

otherwise wouldn't change, you're

allowing the people that hate you

control who you are. And that's just not

something I would ever ever allow

myself. For me, two things are true at

once. A yes, that person is a cowardly

piece of [ __ ] that instead of engage

with me on the thing that he disagrees

with me on, he has to pretend that my

position is way more psycho and then use

that as ammunition to try and get a

bunch of other people to pile on, which

is annoying. And simultaneously, the

politician that that person hates is

also somebody that I massively disagree

with and think is a bad leader. I am

never going to allow people that dislike

me for who I am to dictate my personal

beliefs, who I vote for, who I defend,

or anything like that. I'm just going to

ask that you sit on that for a moment

because this channel will never become a

place where it is a safe space for any

particular politician, any particular

person in their administration, any

particular policy in their

administration, regardless of my

personal views. I can't be the guy

that's covering corruption in like

Malaysia or the EU and then not covering

stupid [ __ ] that my own administration

does. I'm going to always do that. If

you want a channel that is a safe space

from your particular politician of

choice being criticized or when I think

their administration has done something

that is petty or stupid, this is the

wrong channel. I've been doing this for

14 years and I'm going to continue to do

this probably 14 years into the future.

Sometimes you may agree with me,

sometimes you may not agree with me. But

what I'm saying, I can say tell you

this. It comes from the heart. It

doesn't come because any one particular

party is paying me. It doesn't come from

having a preference. And it doesn't it

sure as [ __ ] doesn't come from a

sponsor. I'm not Ben Shapiro. Like, I'm

not here to tell you that I love Donald

Trump so that I can sell more [ __ ]

ExpressVPN ads. Like, that's not who I

am. That's not who I'll ever be.

Just going to leave the video at that.

That's it for today. And as always, I

hope you learned something. I'll see you

in the next video. Balo.