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JoannaAnello 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 :
AI is not profitable. They can't go public because of this. That's exactly why they're doing this.
2026-09-15 01:19:31
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Indra K :
This! It’s a ruse. When they all agree and start taking about protecting average human beings, they’re up to something.
2026-09-15 03:36:04
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Cool Rick :
There is no path to profitability for the main technology these companies are selling. They're looking for a way to socialize their massive losses and form of cartel. This technology is not going to become sentient, and it's only threat to humanity is the water, electricity and computational power it requires
2026-09-15 02:51:18
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Geoffrey :
It’s for regulatory capture.
2026-09-15 00:18:24
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wwolf5150 :
I thought they were just setting the stage for blaming Ai for something before it happens.
2026-09-15 09:44:03
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Corey :
While some safety panic from tech CEOs is real, a lot of the sudden push for heavy regulation is classic "regulatory capture." These giants have poured billions into compute and need massive SaaS profits to survive, free open-source models threaten that entire business model. Framing safety around strict licensing and compute limits lets them look responsible while effectively building a regulatory moat to crush open competition. Add in the geopolitical arms race with China and Russia, and real brakes are never going to happen anyway, see Trump's comments on the matter. This strategy is an exact echo of older technology battles. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, proprietary software giants lobbied against Linux and open-source operating systems, arguing they were insecure, unreliable, and economically dangerous. During the "Crypto Wars" of the 1990s, governments and entrenched interests tried to classify strong public-key encryption as export-controlled munitions, arguing that general-purpose cryptographic code was too dangerous for private citizens to hold. The existential warnings from top executives may not be entirely fabricated, many engineers inside these labs do harbor genuine technical anxiety about alignment. However, when those anxieties reach the C-suite and government affairs teams, they get converted into policy proposals that coincidentally wall off open competition, protect immense capital outlays, and preserve subscription revenues under the banner of public responsibility.
2026-09-16 18:22:23
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Fly Man :
AI bros are the new crypto bros. Just changed techs.
2026-09-15 01:10:46
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indy does tech :
They also want a block on open source models pushed down by the government - as they see open source as the biggest threat to their enterprise revenue line. So… scare the government into thinking AI is so dangerous that open source models will kill society & ban them = no competition = win.
2026-09-15 03:49:23
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oftexas2025 🆘🇺🇸🆘 :
And what are the chances that now data centers will be positioned as necessary infrastructure to regulate and keep the public safe?
2026-09-14 22:44:40
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The Flameborne Reunion :
Also, they don’t want the OPEN SOURCE to stop being free for us.
2026-09-17 13:59:43
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JB Fletcher :
Dario Amodei: let us break U.S. antitrust laws, define the nature of AI regulations, and dictate foreign policy since legislators are dummies and we know everything. Basically.
2026-09-15 01:52:16
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BirdhatJ :
And we r finding out Now?!! They passed a bill this month to stop it but did nothing. U know they r not going to stop ai. look at all the data centers that are all going up.
2026-09-19 15:53:01
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BBDB :
Haha I’m former comms and this was my take too! Just did a pod on it and you’re such a sanity check seeing this bc everyone else is freaking out.
2026-09-15 13:29:19
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Kai they/them :
The AI crisis mirrors the WMD “threat” of “we have to do X before Other Country does X”.
2026-09-18 14:50:20
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MattyBoyRocks :
the entire media is falling for hype and it's so frustrating
2026-09-15 13:28:53
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Branded by Nature :
Them calling for a slow down like they’re not the ones in complete control to actually action a slow down is so annoying. They expect us to assume they all the sudden had a change of heart and want to do the “right thing”? 🙄
2026-09-15 02:50:13
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scottlewis836 :
Just dont believe 'self-regulation'. That's always been BS
2026-09-14 23:08:16
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JoffJS :
Crypto, ICOs all over again...
2026-09-19 04:09:16
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Enginerd :
they’re definitely manipulating the stock prices with the doom and gloom about AI. AI is not stopping slowing or going anywhere.
2026-09-15 17:13:20
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startrek.red.shirt :
Yeah. It’s lip service and they’re trying to save their over-investment in AI that is not monetizing at all and all they’ve managed to do is spend trillions to stay 6 months ahead of China.
2026-09-15 00:34:44
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Paul Rizzo :
If regular people knew what AI could do you would ban it tomorrow. You guys seriously think AI is Chatgpt and Claude.
2026-09-15 02:35:42
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Disco Pete :
Closing the gates behind them. Get regulations in place to stop any new companies coming up behind them.
2026-09-15 01:18:27
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Libra_son :
I agree. I also think they want to minimize their responsibility if things get bad. They want to say, “we tried to warn you and begged for regulation, so it’s not our fault.”
2026-09-15 01:27:44
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NoMadWorld :
Summary: interest rates are up, they need time to let those rates settle and come down because they have to borrow loads since they want to stay private and not “show their cards”.
2026-09-15 01:52:11
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Brie Ryden :
I work at a software company & was in marketing before sales. I said yesterday, they are running out of money. Why are all the talking points the same, 🤦♀️
2026-09-15 01:39:49
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