Yoav Goldberg translates AI industry speak: 'third-party evaluators' are spies, 'pacing' means stop spending
yoavgo · x · 2026-09-14
NLP researcher Yoav Goldberg offers his cynical translation of AI industry rhetoric:
- "independent third-party evaluators" are, in his reading, spies gathering intel on the biggest competitors;
- "pacing" simply means "stop spending and start monetizing."
The post is a pointed read on how leading AI labs' official language masks a shift from expansion to revenue extraction.
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