Commenter: OpenAI and Anthropic's slowdown plea is really a push to regulate open source
fooobar · x · 2026-09-13
A commenter argues that neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is a public company that needs investors' permission to slow down — if they want to slow development, they can just do it. In his view, their public calls for coordinated slowdown amount to little more than asking for regulatory checks on open source models.
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