> I think Dario is genuinely afraid of the inevitability of AI turning into internet slime mold

He's so afraid of it he's not really in operating day-to-day control of the company he's the public face of, that is actually pumping it out.

If you read about Anthropic it's like he's in a sort of imperial palace sanatorium for geeks. The day-to-day decisions of the slop machine factory are his sister's decisions; he is doing the research equivalent of instagram posts of his partly-assembled adult lego kits and he has a vizier and a team of house servants to help.

I don't know if he's a good or bad person, but I don't think it matters at all — the machine factory will turn out the slop machines even if he decides it all ought to stop.