Investor Alsop Speculates Anthropic's Doomfluencer Push Is Regulatory Capture
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-11
Investor Stewart Alsop III offers four guesses for why Anthropic brought in 'doomfluencers' and sock puppet armies: A) competition from astra, B) competition from open source (the new DeepSeek model), C) a pure play on regulatory capture, or D) collaboration with OpenAI for C. Unverified industry speculation about the motives behind frontier-lab safety narratives.
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