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‘Too little, too late’: critics perplexed and suspicious of AI leaders’ call for a slowdown
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2026
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"slowdown" means "prevent competition and maintain the status-quo"
Yep - they're established, so it's ladder-pulling time!
While they quietly panic about the constantly rising costs of running their models, the lack of new training data, and the sheer drop investment capital took while they were too busy hemorrhaging money to realize.
Now they'll act like they're scaling back in order to protect the public and hopefully figure out their golden parachute strategy while cutting startups and smaller businesses out of the market completely.