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Jez Corden

"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during the Federal Reserve Integrated Review of the Capital Framework for Large Banks Conference in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.

There are no virtuous participants in the artificial intelligence race, but if there was, it might've been Anthropic.

Large language model tech is built on mountains of stolen data. The entire summation of decades of the open internet was downloaded and converted by billionaires into tech that threatens to destroy billions of jobs, end the global economy, and potentially the human race. But hey, at least in the short term, shareholders (might) make a stack of cash.

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