Anthropic's 5% equity pledge slammed as inadequate amid AI copyright backlash
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-19
Anthropic's plan to allocate roughly 5% (possibly up to 20%) of its shares to an Anthropic LLC funding activities it defines as the "public good" drew sharp pushback. Critics call the company "the result of perpetual civilizational theft" — forecasting mass unemployment and existential risk while offering a minority equity slice is "just does not cut it." The thread cites parallels: OpenAI proposed contributing 5% of its equity to a U.S. public wealth fund in April; Bernie Sanders floated a one-time 50% equity tax giving Americans actual ownership and voting rights; and Palantir's CEO has predicted Anthropic's nationalization. The attached cartoon skewers the double standard: a person taking one book from the Library of Congress faces up to 10 years in prison, while "LLM software" operates as a "Perpetual Intellectual Theft Machine" gobbling a "Pirated Library of Human Knowledge" — a $1T business model at $3,000 per copyright infringement.
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