While the drafters of the US order may have had sovereignty in mind, they ended up making it an identity management problem.
“The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance,” Anthropic said in a blog post commenting on the order, implying that it was unable to distinguish between foreign nationals and US citizens in its user base.
That’s likely the case today, but for its consumer customers, an update to its privacy policy, introduced last week and taking effect on July 8, gives it a new option: asking them for government ID.
The section of the policy on collection of personal data contains a new provision under the heading “Personal data you provide to us directly,” saying:
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