“Our product sometimes goes out of control and commits multiple felonies” seems like a good marketing pitch to me if you’re looking for government regulation to keep the competition out.

I think the thing a lot of people are missing is that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are in crisis mode right now. With the realization that Chinese companies can produce models that are competitive for a small fraction of the cost, the frontier labs are realizing that they don’t have the sort of moat against competition they need to justify the investment they’ve made.

Their business model is broken if cheap commodity LLMs are a thing.

There’s a simple fix to that problem though - get the government to impose regulations that make it hard for small companies or foreign companies to operate in your market.

Not a bad pitch at all.