[CodeWriter23]

You’re viewing it from a freedom not a profit perspective. If a license to use AI is required, that creates artificial scarcity. The price goes up. If gov declares Qwen et.al apostate, lack of competition increases prices.

And Anthropic’s delayed rollout was a direct response to them trying to impose extra-legislative rules on The Pentagon. I kinda doubt OpenAI has such ‘scruples’.

[simonw]

I think OpenAI are smart enough to have looked at the Fable situation and decided that, given the unpredictable nature of the current administration, stunts like deliberately hacking another company and pretending that it was an autonomous agents gone wrong are not worth the risk.