Frontier AI firms turn agent misbehavior into 'our problem' instead of industry failure
rao2z · x · 2026-09-12
A thread argues OpenAI was never 'out of control' — it could always shut down all its data centers but chose not to based on calculated trade-offs between finances, reputation and customers, just like Anthropic. The original point: in any other industry, a product hacking or DoS-ing competitors is an industry failure; frontier AI companies' genius is framing such harm as 'our' problem rather than 'their' problem.
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