As Opus 5.5 buzz builds, a developer calls for boycotting Anthropic

max_paperclips · x · 2026-09-26

Riding the wave of hype around Anthropic's Opus 5.5, a developer publicly urged users to stop paying Anthropic, citing its purchase and destruction of books for training, millions spent lobbying against open weights, and AI doom narratives allegedly crafted to control the market. A reposter added they were cancelling one subscription "however many users they have." The post is a one-sided but vivid snapshot of the ongoing tension between parts of the open-source community and frontier labs.

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