Anthropic's War on Open Source AI

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Anthropic presents itself as the responsible AI lab, but its actions reveal a pattern of control: opaque model behavior, anti-competitive access rules, and regulatory lobbying. The author argues that Anthropic's safety rhetoric masks a business model that turns intelligence into a permission layer, threatening the open-source ecosystem. The piece highlights the Fable incident, where Anthropic secretly degraded AI development assistance, and calls for open-source AI as the only safeguard against a 'permanent intelligence underclass.'