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- OpenAI and Anthropic sought administration support to make collaboration legal; the source warns that, if achieved, one terms-of-service violation on either platform would send a user directly to the "sunken place."
- Smart glasses become the source’s most vivid example of exclusion: a banned user’s display loses color, forcing the wearer to see a bleak gray world instead of the beautiful utopia previously shown.
- Banned users would fall behind a superhuman AI-enabled society, reduced to digging holes with spoons while others build skyscrapers with armies of bots.
- Open source is presented as the only way to protect users’ freedom and economic viability, including their ability to challenge the dominant AI companies.
Why it matters: The source’s sharpest point is that a ban could remove not just one service but the tools underlying a user’s work and daily life. With OpenAI and Anthropic collaborating, the author says one terms-of-service violation could trigger broader exclusion; open source is the proposed hedge against becoming economically cut off.
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