Reddit Rant: Altman, Amodei and Musk Are Running a Fear Campaign Against Open Source AI
Extension-Mastodon67 · reddit · 2026-09-14
A Reddit post argues that closed-AI players failed to stop open source by banning weights, banning data, hoarding compute and buying up memory, and are now running a fear-mongering campaign to regulate open source out of existence. It claims Altman, Amodei and Musk — who dislike each other — are aligned because they fear competition, not AI itself. Opinionated, light on evidence.
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