Burkov blasts Anthropic IPO: $106B projected losses for 'millions of slop websites'
burkov · x · 2026-11-14
Andriy Burkov offers a pointed critique of Anthropic's reported IPO plans: projected losses of $106 billion in 2026 against nearly $50 billion in sales, which he argues buys little more than "millions of slop websites, slop blogs, slop books, and millions of unfinished software prototypes."
He adds that AI is also breaking peer-reviewed science and education — 94% of students admit using chatbots to generate essays and solve exercises — alongside "thousands of fake PhDs with fake theses."
More from AGI Musings
- Burkov: AI destroyed writing as civilization's measure of trust, and nothing replaced it — burkov · 2026-11-14
- DHH champions local open-source AI: open weights, local compute, global collaboration — TinfoilTricorn · 2026-11-14
- Could your AI agent sell its figure-making skills to other agents? — Sauers_ · 2026-11-14
- Are human values just adaptations to scarcity? An AI thinker's provocative take — VraserX · 2026-11-14
- Anthropic's Discovery team expands hiring in bid to build an AI scientist — simonbatzner · 2026-11-14
- AI safety researcher says contrarian AGI-timeline takes cost him funding and status — JacquesThibs · 2026-11-14