Anthropic and OpenAI are buying companies' operational histories, forcing a prisoner's dilemma
dbasch · x · 2026-11-03
dbasch argues Anthropic and OpenAI are now buying companies' operational histories — shipment records, customer complaint resolutions, Slack threads — putting random small businesses in a prisoner's dilemma. A 150-person freight broker knows selling could let AI 'clone' and destroy them, but since rivals can't coordinate (you don't even know how many prisoners there are), defection — selling — is the rational move. Image: a report on OpenAI/Anthropic data demand turning startups' Slack threads into prized assets.
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