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What's the over / under on that recent Anthropic guy who resigned being a plant?
I didn't think of it at the time, but it is weird that some random junior AI researcher resigning was making headlines at major newspapers.
Anderson Cooper interviewed him. He stressed how companies are begging to be regulated because they are scared too.
They definitely are scared. Of their competitors in China eating their lunch. And dinner. And breakfast. And drink all the champagne.
These labs have no real moats except sunk cost. Anthropic itself proves that OpenAI's first-mover advantage is already minimal - they caught up in less than 18 months of product-market fit. Chinese open models will destroy any long term value these guys have, except that there is so much money riding on their faked-and-will-never-make lasting excellence, that if they get a little bit of protection by erecting barriers to entry for others, they might actually survive on sunk cost alone.
Now I'm more convinced that it's orchestrated
People entering every thought or data into a database loses its surveillance value if its self hosted or offshore
Intel agencies use venture firms to operate as companies (look where in-q-tel is headquartered and see if it's familiar)
So it's not companies asking to be regulated, it's the IC protecting their companies.
Now ask what data they already have that can be used to blackmail pols... It's a closed loop system.
It really does look like a case of "plz regulate me harder, daddy", doesn't it?