# Eric S. Raymond on AI: “Heads up, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI. Rumor reaches my ears th…”

> Heads up, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI. Rumor reaches my ears that you're doing a stupid thing, and should stop before you d… — 7.6K likes, 693 reposts on X.

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- **Updated:** 2026-10-29
- **Category:** social
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- **Author:** @esrtweet
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- **Rank today:** #6 of 14
- **Posted:** 2026-10-25 23:46 UTC

Heads up, @OpenAI and @AnthropicAI. Rumor reaches my ears that you're doing a stupid thing, and should stop before you damage yourselves. I hear you've now nerfed your models so that when people try to use them to clean the spamware and spyware out of their televisions, you block that. If you really want Chinese open-weight models and open-source projects like OpenWaldo to eat your lunch, crippling your models so that people paying expensive subscriptions can't use them for completely legitimate purposes is a great way to accomplish this. If, on the other hand, you'd …

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