Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI and others made illegal agreement on AI slowdown

cobolcomesback

Ah, I see we’ve reached the point of “Don’t Look Up” where members of the public are actively mad that they’re being warned of the incoming meteor.

oli5679

I wonder if you could pursue an antitrust cases in eu against Claude code refusing to use fable to work on some deep learning problems and downgrading to an inferior model. Would this ever be viewed as an abuse of dominant market position, aiming to disadvantage potential entrants.

datadrivenangel

Actual legal document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ufb8Bg9RA9LmRKOvXSm9UbP9YIT...

mittensc

I'm always curious why. "we're going to slow down AI" - why? "we care about the masses and ..." - why? why now? what changed? I'm a bit afraid that the actual reasons are economic, they may be realizing the hole they've dug themselves in with their massive investments with a recession that seems to be brought on by their tech....

falaki

I cannot wait to have Astra analyze the discovery documents for this lawsuit.

CoolestBeans

No matter how you feel about the situation, the law is pretty clear that colluding to limit R&D with your competitors is anticompetitive. The fact that these CEOs have called for this in public is pure arrogance enabled by horrific legal controls within the companies (OpenAI's blog post about the Apple lawsuit points to this too) or they're so confident about the degree of corruption in America they feel they can act with impunity. Either way we desperately need the rule of law to do its job and deter these antisocial behaviors.