Pliny: frontier labs' 'safety and alignment' rhetoric is like taking health advice from Big Tobacco
davidmanheim · x · 2026-11-03
Well-known prompt injection researcher elderplinius posted that we should be deeply skeptical of "safety and alignment" rhetoric from any organization whose business is building frontier models — likening it to taking health advice from Big Tobacco. Safety researcher David Manheim reposted the take. A pointed critique of labs' self-regulation credibility in the AI safety debate.
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