Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called OpenAI’s communications about military cooperation ‘just lies,’ a report says.

Anthropic co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei is not happy – perhaps understandably – with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a memo to employees, by The InformationAmodei referred to OpenAI’s actions with the Department of Defense as a “security forum”.

“The main reason (OpenAI) accepted (the DoD deal) and we didn’t is that they care about staffing, and we care about preventing harassment,” Amodei wrote.

Last week, Anthropic and the US Department of Defense (DoD) failed to agree on a military request unlimited opportunities to the company’s AI technology. Anthropic, which already had a $200 million contract with the military, pressed the DoD to confirm that it would not use the company’s AI to monitor more people in buildings or autonomous devices.

Instead, the DoD — known under the Trump administration as the Department of Defense — he did something and OpenAI. Altman he said that his company’s new security agreement would include protection from the red lines that Anthropic said.

In a letter to employees, Amodei calls OpenAI’s messages “outright lies,” saying that Altman is “presenting himself as a pacifist and a businessman.”

Amodei may not be talking out of pain, here. Anthropic especially took the problem and the DoD’s insistence that the company’s AI be available “for any and all approvals.” OpenAI said in a blog post that its contract allows the use of its AI systems “for all lawful purposes.”

“It was clear from our interaction that the DoW considered mass surveillance at home illegal and was not planning to use it for this purpose,” the OpenAI blog said. “We made sure that this non-legal use was clearly defined in our contract.”

Critics say the law could change, and what is considered illegal now could be allowed in the future.

And people seem to agree with Anthropic. ChatGPT removes it rose 295% After OpenAI formed its partnership with the DoD.

“I think the spinning/gas lighting experiment is not going well in the public or the media, where people often see what OpenAI is doing with DoW as cool or questionable, and see us as heroes (we’re #2 in the App Store now!),” Amodei wrote to his staff. “It’s working on some Twitter stuff, which doesn’t matter, but my biggest concern is making sure it doesn’t work on OpenAI staff.”