Follow-up: 'Regulatory Capture' Narratives Actually Favor Open Weights, Author Argues
austinc3301 · x · 2026-09-13
Extending his critique, the author argues that while skepticism toward frontier labs' follow-through is fair, framing recent events as regulatory capture does the opposite of benefiting closed labs over open-weight models.
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