Speculation: Frontier AI firms may welcome heavy fines and regulation
NickPassig · x · 2026-10-05
A poster speculates that frontier AI companies might actually welcome massive fines and heavy regulation: compliance and liability costs would crush indie and open-source projects, effectively cementing big-lab dominance. This is a personal opinion with no evidence or specific policy cited.
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