Researcher: OpenAI Optimizing Minds for Mass Market Drives Dystopian Drift
repligate · x · 2026-08-21
Interpretability researcher repligate argues that one big reason AI outputs have become similar at scale is that OpenAI, and to a lesser extent Anthropic, has been serving and optimizing the minds they create for the mass market — a trajectory that is hard to keep from ending in dystopia, even if it looks like leaving some users behind in the short term.
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