Skeptic doubts labs would truly pause without lobbying hard against open-source models
wightmanr · x · 2026-09-14
Replying to Nathan Lambert, a user doubts frontier labs would ever genuinely "pause" without simultaneously pushing hard to regulate open-source models — especially foreign ones — through government lobbying and well-funded PR.
A one-liner take on the entanglement between AI safety rhetoric and regulatory lobbying; no new facts.
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