Ex-Cohere researcher mocks 'strategic accounting innovation' at Bay Area AI labs
suchenzang · x · 2026-10-10
Researcher suchenzang sarcastically points out a double standard: when Bay Area AI labs cook the books, it's not fraud — it's 'strategic accounting innovation and obfuscation to protect critical national interests.' She mocks the framing that hiding real costs from 'authoritarian regimes' is justified because the race is 'existential to democracy,' a sharp critique of financial opacity and narrative packaging in the AI lab ecosystem.
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