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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Ca... by stevage on Friday February 20, 2026 @02:25AM (#47084807)
Didn't the AI companies scale down or get rid of their safety teams entirely when they realised they could be more profitable without them?
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Ca... by Eliezer on Friday February 20, 2026 @02:44AM (#47084937)
The safety teams are trivial expenses for them. They fire the safety team because explicit failure makes them look bad, or because the safety team doesn't go along with a party line and gets labeled disloyal.
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Re:An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Ca... by ljm on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:58AM (#47086381)
The first customer is always the investor these days, so anything that threatens the investor's confidence is bad for business.
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