> But do people really believe this? That associating with AI companies, using their product, etc, is similar to taking money from a child sex trafficker?

I'm not saying he did it (how would I tell?), but Altman has absolutely been accused by his own sister.

And while Musk doesn't seem to have actually gone to that island, he did seem interested.

And one of the files did show Zuckerberg and Musk dining with Epstein.

And many of the big tech leadership did openly support Trump, despite the long list of things that now includes suspicious gaps in which of the Epstein files actually got published. (Even if theres a legit reason behind what remains hidden, promising to publish then failing is at best still a huge own-goal because "they have something to hide" is necessarily true and always sounds like it means "that they themselves did").

So, yeah, I can see it being that level of bad for at least several of the big names.

(There's also a lot of distaste for Anthropic; I'm not aware of anything of this category, but even without that it is easy to tar everyone with the same brush).