Critics Slam Anthropic for Monopoly Under the Guise of AI Safety
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-08-09
Drawing an analogy to AlphaFold's decision to freely release 200 million protein structures for the benefit of humanity, the author criticizes Anthropic's approach to AI safety. The commentary argues that if Anthropic genuinely prioritized safety, they would use their new models to scan all open-source codebases and provide vulnerability findings for free, rather than leveraging safety regulations to establish a technological monopoly.
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