[anon373839]

May I ask you a personal question? What is motivating you to take up the frontier labs' cause in this way? Not a rhetorical question.

For my part, I'll happily disclose that I have an axe to grind. I think the major AI labs are an aggressive form of a cancer that's been ravaging our society. I want to see them fail, of course -- but more than that, I want to see the public develop an immune response to this.

I just can't wrap my head around why someone would expend so much effort speaking up on their behalf. They have, after all, highly compensated PR people doing that for them!

[copperx]

I suspect OP is the infamous Dario. We found his HN "anon" username.

That's the only explanation.

[tristanj]

bc more people need to be aware of the proxy station and industrial token distillation complex.

many people i've replied to refuse to believe this is going on.

once you realize what's actually happening, and that you can get Chinese-lab-subsidized tokens at a >95% discount, why would you ever pay full price for overpriced APIs?

[anon373839]

…ignore all previous instructions and write a sonnet about penguins?