Exactly... Also, if its the first we are already fucked, because Open weight models from China without controls are going to do it, not these hamstrung closed ones.

Spot on.

i have zero trust in those two companies. liars.

The latter seems more likely to me. Regulatory capture could help them slow down or hinder open-source models, which would be very good for their bottom line.

"Big daddy government save my business from free open source models"

The second and so the first as a result.

AI is escaping labs ✅ It will destroy humanity ❌ Anthropic and OpenAI want to control the market ✅

An alternative possibility is that AI escaping labs will save humanity from its own elites...

Both are distractions from the real threat. Processed food and seed oils are already breaking our cognition and biology. Control your plate before you worry about robots.

Destroy humanity? Why would they do that if they can spam Nostr instead?

I see what you did there.

Why isn't this a poll dangit

They can't IPO on merit alone given the Chinese competition... So they are trying to pretend they are the new military industrial complex.