'Fear of Antitrust Suits Won't Slow AI Labs' — They Never Hesitated on Copyright Either
NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-10-23
Nathan Young argues AI labs citing antitrust fears as a reason not to slow down rings hollow — they scraped copyrighted web data under active lawsuit threat without stopping. MIRI's Nate Soares amplified: if labs won't share extinction-avoidance info citing antitrust law after aggressively testing copyright limits, that reveals their real priorities.
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