Comment by ngruhn

In addition to the whole anti-competitive aspect already mentioned, it also helps sell the idea that LLMs are more powerful and capable of more things than they actually are.

They want clueless investors to legitimately believe that these futuristic AIs are advanced enough that they could magically break out of our computers and take over the world terminator-style if not properly controlled, and totally aren't just glorified text completion algorithms.

Not if you want the regulators to stop new entrants on the market for “safety reasons” which have been Dario Amodei's playbook for the past two years now.

He acts as if he believed the only way to avoid the commoditization of its business by open weight models is to manage to get a federal ban on them for being a national security threat.