The media is pushing that as a solid theory and it's not crazy. What's bad for openai is good for anthropic / etc, but there are a lot of places they could be putting that money that would benefit them more directly.
You'd think so, but from what I've personally heard at least... Anthropic seems to mostly be doing right by the community with their contributions like this. I could be falling for the propaganda, but guys are even backing groups pushing for stronger AI guardrails and oversight.
They're not as expensive as you'd think anymore. Yeah, real good one is a few grand, but you get into the mid 3 digit range and you can still get a pretty alright one.
Short term, the insulation will just make you itchy where it touched your skin. Protective gear is great, but just take a shower and wash your clothes. Don't half-ass it and just wash your arms, solid chance you'll wake up in the middle of the night and wonder why you're so itchy.
I'm on your side man, but this is one of the tactics trolls/propaganda bots use. It's called sealioning if I remember right. The idea is to shut down discussion by shifting the burden to the other side asking for "sources" while contributing nothing to the discussion. Real easy to ask for sources, harder to provide and explain them.
It feels real weird to think of a republican controlled government nationalizing a business, feels like not doing that is one of their core tenets. Hypocrisy is not rare obviously, but it would be interesting.
It's even worse, the structure we have actively discourages them from doing so. Fiduciary responsibility is thrown up as a reason for a lot of things like this and knowingly picking an option that is less profitable on paper even if it's obviously better long term is inviting questions.
Server is relatively easy, but to get to zero telemetry on the client, you're going to have a lot of overlap with things you'd go sailing for. What's your feelings on the microsoft account requirements? If that's a dealbreaker, a legitimate client likely won't get you there.
Also like, they call them fingers, but I've never seen them fing.