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rbjorklinyesterday at 10:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

The general idea is that Anthropic/OpenAI is pushing this narrative as an attempt at "Regulatory Capture"[1] which would allow them to make it prohibitively expensive for anyone but them to enter the market thus stifling competition.

* 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture


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chanakyayesterday at 10:10 PM

How would that slow down the Chinese models, given that the US has no regulatory reach in China?

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verdvermyesterday at 10:11 PM

I heard someone analogize token vendors to car manufacturers, where American companies only want to produce expensive options, the people want cheaper/better alternatives, and we ban BYD because those with enough money are more "persuasive"

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