Frontier labs face a data-harvesting incentive as they expand into more businesses
tekbog · x · 2026-07-29
The post argues that people often like Claude or ChatGPT simply because they are novel and easy to instruct, even when some problems may not actually be good fits for LLMs.
In the reply, the author adds a sharper business critique: frontier labs entering every line of business create an incentive to keep collecting more data to improve the business and train the model, rather than shipping a solution quickly. The concern is that the product may be “not that good,” but the data flywheel pulls the company toward expansion anyway.
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