beffjezos: AI safety scares are an insidious ploy to ban open source and protect margins
beffjezos · x · 2026-09-10
beffjezos claims safety warnings aim to scare the public into banning open source so closed labs keep better margins while claiming to keep you "safe" — an insidious power grab, with the resulting concentration of power being the historically precedented real risk. Quoted post adds this is Anthropic's official comms strategy, not employees being "horrified."
Related event: e/acc Founder Blasts Anthropic: Safety Warnings Are Anti-Open-Source Tactic(2 posts)→
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