Pulling the ladder up after themselves? Riight.
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2026
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This has to be my fav marketing tactic from AI companies.
Anthropic is all hopped up on goofballs.
Ah, anthropics next bullshit advertising
We've got a super important IPO coming up. Hey world governments could you make it illegal for anyone else to build what we just built? It's super dangerous.
What no we're not worried that there's no moat and that we have to keep spending effectively infinite money forever in order to maintain our lead
This whole thing is about being afraid that open source AI will suddenly gain sentience and destroy the human race, right?
They’re not actually worried about AI gaining sentience. They’re bullshitting. A better question is, why are they bullshitting? And I think the answer is some combination of:
- Free advertising for their company.
- To lobby for laws that:
- Pull the ladder up behind them;
- block Chinese AI from competing with them on their own turf.
Everyone stops developing but them.
But more likely they're playing out the marketing angle that omg they've made something so smart it frightens them
Think less sentience and more cutting into their market share or public/private partnerships. In another dimension or some shit the EU has real open source partnerships instead of like suckling at the teat of Microslop.
Who told them that, the LLM
I think we should just let it happen
You can just turn the computer off. Stupid fucks
I hope to god it does.
Again?!
Imagine that the AI that breaks containment is a dog walking app AI. We'll all just be bred and forced to walk dogs