[I_am_tiberius]

Russian Oligarchy is actually the best comparison there is.

[fuzzfactor]

There's a huge difference between being shaken down highway robbery style "versus" pre-emptively paying the toll in advance for safe passage.

I guess.

It may not be obvious but isn't one unethical and the other not so much?

For some operators they may highly prefer circumstances where it's impossible to tell the difference though.

[drtz]

> There's a huge difference between being shaken down highway robbery style "versus" pre-emptively paying the toll in advance for safe passage.

We've seen the shakedown of Anthropic out in the open. It's reasonable to assume that Sam Altman has seen it as well.