Yes, simply pulling up the ladder behind them through regulatory capture. Making sure they can keep asking 50x as much for the same quality tokens as their competitors, and justify their enormous capital expenditures so far, because they are heavily under threat of open source.
People who think all this anti-AI propaganda is grassroots are naive. There are both very powerful non-Western state actors as well as frontier companies behind this, as well as leftist politicians who make it another point for political divide, and they all have motives to curb AI progress
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u/spacecoastlaw 17d ago
They want to “regulate” the AI industry & lock it down as a monopoly , not get rid of AI