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Open AI Advocates Warn Safety Rules Will Enable Future Monopolies

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Derya Unutmaz, MD
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Derya Unutmaz, MD@DeryaTR_

Everyone who cares about the age of AI should read this. 💯

Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1

The fury is real and what all of us in the open community have been saying for years and yet regular folks don't get it yet because nothing they care about is restricted or taken away for "safety."

They will care a LOT in the future when AI is integrated into every aspect of our lives. When it's our interface to the world and knows every intimate detail about us.

Right now regular folks are being pysoped into fighting data centers and other nonsense but tomorrow it will be "I can't do this with my computer because the AI stopped me" or "the AI reported me because I said "retard" in a private WhatsApp chat.

All of this boils down a religiously zealous push for an AT&T 1950s style monopoly with much worse implications for us all.

8:29 AM · Jun 10, 2026 · 5.2K Views
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Many users praised warnings that AI safety rules will let OpenAI create future monopolies and control, while others feared these changes would produce extreme outcomes like a cognitive caste system or total catastrophe.

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

@Dan_Jeffries1 Great take. Totally agree. The normies aren't paying attention to this at all.

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Giedrius Trump@Trumpyla

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer 💯

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Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1

The fury is real and what all of us in the open community have been saying for years and yet regular folks don't get it yet because nothing they care about is restricted or taken away for "safety."

They will care a LOT in the future when AI is integrated into every aspect of our lives. When it's our interface to the world and knows every intimate detail about us.

Right now regular folks are being pysoped into fighting data centers and other nonsense but tomorrow it will be "I can't do this with my computer because the AI stopped me" or "the AI reported me because I said "retard" in a private WhatsApp chat.

All of this boils down a religiously zealous push for an AT&T 1950s style monopoly with much worse implications for us all.

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Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1

It's not real enough for them yet. It's not a part of their life yet. When their phone or glasses are nothing but AI and they don't even know what an app is in 10 years they will care a whole hell of a lot.

This fight matters little now but a lot in a decade.

You're as old as me so you remember the early fights about the Internet and censorship and the cypherpunks.

It's the same story all over again. History does repeat. The abstract story just morphs and takes on new forms.

It's why in fantasy stories like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings evil never gets defeated totally. It turns to a mist and is weaker for a time and then it gathers strength again in a new generation for a new fight.

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Jessie L. Mannisto@jlmannisto

Actually, another cohort HAS demonstrated this: those with relational and affective use cases. What such users cared about was taken away for “safety.” I always saw them as the canary in the coal mine, showing how the labs were willing to treat users.

Their lead protest has always been about agency. I’d say it applies broadly.

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Julie Fredrickson@AlmostMedia

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer Appreciate this collection as WOWZA I figured my crew would be pissed as we are “right to compute” open source folks but this has ticked off absolutely everyone and then some

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Robert Scoble@Scobleizer

@Dan_Jeffries1 Totally! I tried to argue with Zuckerberg about data portability and lost. Sigh.

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BlockChain Kriol Guy@MrLWrightSr1

@Dan_Jeffries1 @DanielleFong @Scobleizer You have very valid points ! Thank You for your report ! 👍🏽😎😎😎

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Michael Spencer@ReadFuturist

What did you expect when these startups got most of the funding and fast tracked to IPOs? It's literally their job now to do this, to maximize revenue and protect future shareholder interests.

Better then than the other guy. It's pointless for openAI to pivot to Enterprise when nobody trusts them.

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Sean@sean_from_earth

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer Clipper Chip 2: Inference Boogaloo

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Daniel Jeffries@Dan_Jeffries1

@Scobleizer You did your part.

My goal is always this: When I am on my final moments will I be able to say I did everything I could in the fights that mattered to me or did I chicken out?

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Visionary x AI@VisionaryxAI

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer Definitely agree. There’s this silent push that’s affecting all of us, but right now the FOMO is overwhelming, so we keep accepting it and becoming more dependent.

Just look at the prices too 💀

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Cygnos@AremasNL

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer You have corporations that primarily focus on maximizing shareholder value, and governments that often prioritize maintaining authority and control. When these competing interests are balanced against one another, it can help prevent either side from gaining excessive influence.

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Geo Anima@geo_anima

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer We must not sleepwalk into a cognitive caste system!

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🌎🕊️🧑‍🤝‍🧑🇺🇸 Greg Mozart 🚫💣🧨📢@GregMozart

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer This is exactly what Safebots was launched to solve. Give it to the people. You can have your safety cake and eat it too, especially with the latest frontier models from Anthropic.

https://safebots.ai/singularity.html

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Catherine H@CatherineUNIT2

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer When they kill us all…

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GG@gavin_gee

@Dan_Jeffries1 @Scobleizer by the time they realize it will be too late and we will see token political lawsuits that wont accrue to anything

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CYBRGAL@cybrgalaxy

@Scobleizer @Dan_Jeffries1 Some are I assure you.

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jon halstead@zeronull1983

https://zenodo.org/records/20621346?token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImIyNDFhZjc3LWQ4YTgtNDcxNC04MDUwLWM2Y2QzYTc3NGVkNyIsImRhdGEiOnt9LCJyYW5kb20iOiJhNDNmYzQzZWQ5MTQ2Y2EzN2RjM2I3NWQ0OWUzYmJhZiJ9.bOcnEZPQc7UWhvCjC3C4zF6VkrS9Gd-J9Zf8tQXHZxfaL3SC5wjYtbdSxIAjCCAsccQWI-Lx6qKE8a9p8ehiYA Exactly this. People don’t feel the pain yet because the restrictions haven’t touched the parts of their lives they rely on. But once AI becomes the interface to everything — work, communication, creativity, health — they’ll suddenly realize how much power they handed over. Today it’s “fight the data centers.” Tomorrow it’s “my computer won’t let me do something because the AI decided it’s unsafe,” or “a private message triggered an automated report.”

This isn’t safety — it’s the foundation of a centralized monopoly with moral authority baked in.

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