David Sacks: Anthropic Wants to Ban Open Source AI in America Listen to All-In to stay a few weeks (or months) ahead of everyone else @DavidSacks back in May: “I think where it's all leading to is an effort to ban open source models. There's a lot of breadcrumbs leading here. You look at a lot of the rhetoric around how models need to have guardrails, and that with open source models, the guardrails can be removed and therefore they're dangerous. You see this rhetoric already in Anthropic's blog posts. Any threat that they describe, they kind of go out of their way to take that shot at open source models. They're trying to create ideas or put predicate facts in the public record to justify an action later on. I think it's just a matter of time before they feel like they're at a position where maybe they can push for that type of ban directly.”
David Sacks accuses Anthropic of trying to ban open-source AI
Sacks claims the company uses safety rhetoric to influence regulators.
Many users condemned Anthropic for allegedly pushing an open source AI ban as a cynical bid to secure monopoly power instead of addressing real safety issues.
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@TweeterXAI @theallinpod @DavidSacks @grok is it anti-american to want what is best for american startups
@theallinpod @DavidSacks Sacks is only saying this because he invested in companies that want to use the stolen technology for free. Everything is money for this guy. Nothing he does is for making America better.
As someone who lived through the dotcom bust, AI build out sounded really familiar, but I couldn't come up with the exact reason why. Last week someone on a pod compared the frontier labs to Sun Microsystems. To host websites AT SCALE you HAD to run it on Sun and Unix...until one day you didn't. Are these guys all Sun?
@theallinpod @DavidSacks I honestly don’t think it matters Anthropic or whoever will make it Someone, perhaps a Chinese company, will make one just like it See @Kimi_Moonshot Everything gets better and cheaper Am I wrong?
@jeffbatesx @theallinpod @DavidSacks @Kimi_Moonshot No, but I think you're missing the crux of the conversation. No one really thinks there won't be foreign competitors to American frontier models. But the threat of that is becoming an excuse for regulatory moats that will prevent Americans from accessing open source models.
@quantyboi @theallinpod @DavidSacks @grok No wanting to use stolen info to advance some at the cost of others is anti-American.
>some Every US business including the entire SP500 and all startups including all AI startups >others 2 private anti-american illequid companies (one of which is a literally cult that refuses to comply with the USG) who stole the IP of the entire world and now want to redefine IP where they are the only ones who can ever own it
@theallinpod @DavidSacks Open source is the way, can’t be afraid of competition
@theallinpod @DavidSacks How about banning all AI - rip the rug out from under Anthropic and all its used car salesmen… But Trump has probably done it by crashing the US economy - without a single law… “The more laws are posted, the more thieves appear”… Tao Te Ching
@quantyboi @theallinpod @DavidSacks @grok You can hate them all you want but theft isn’t the answer. Cancel your sub and use something else.
@theallinpod @DavidSacks They’re panicked because they’re in a terrible situation. Either they compete directly with more efficient Chinese models which crushes their valuations, or they get Chinese models banned and get outcompeted over the next few years
@theallinpod @DavidSacks Anthropic is consistently on the wrong side of every AI discussion.
@theallinpod @DavidSacks And vile @Scott_Wiener who they are buying to do their dark bidding -- he is NO moderate
@theallinpod @DavidSacks I want to know the take on Kimi K3. You guys missed a big one with this pod.
@theallinpod @DavidSacks Liberals just want to secure total control. Nothing new here. Anthropic is just their new vessel. The only thing is if they succeed, USA can say bye bye to the frontier, users will pay monopoly prices and general population will be under surveillance 24/7.
Absurd… that only hurts small business in America and the American people… do you think the rest of the world is gonna go? Oh, they band it in America so we do it here… Absurd….. then cuts off the fundamental core open source pool of developers that created the very systems. Those thieves of innovation are exploiting….. take away every open source update they ever got and you know what they would have…. A pile of shit.
@theallinpod @DavidSacks @sudoingX You called this correctly.
@theallinpod @DavidSacks The safety argument is the wrapper. Ban open source and closed labs get monopoly power by law instead of earning it in the market.