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How much can AI companies control the AI?
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2026
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It's an intelligence con. They're making it seem like the AIs are far smarter than they thought, rather than the reality that someone gave them too much access for what the tests called for, and by putting 'impossible' questions to answer, the LLMs would naturally look for/ write to a wiki for help (cause that's what they're designed to do)
Every time you hear about an AI doing "something seemingly impossible" or fear mongering about future potential destruction caused by ai, it's all in furtherance of this con. The word calculators contain no intelligence, but we can sell that they do to the public in order to get more power/ money/ control.
Are they worried about the bubble popping or is this not an issue?
Recall back to the conversation with bankers doing Ninja loans from 'The Big Short'. They care that they're making money, and have no thoughts for the future consequences. Long-term thinking is for politicians and poors.
The recent 'AIs are so dangerous' conversations have likely three-fold reasons. One, push the intelligence con. Two, tighten up regulations so that only existing LLM companies can play ball and shut out the open source and Chinese models. And third, OpenAI recently reported that their models were used by Iran for targeting solution code for their drones. So they're playing it up to become a military asset as well (get those sweet defense dollars)