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Or put differently, when lobbying doesn’t make you competitive you have to lower your prices.

I hope these type of dismissive comments stop in HN. OpenAI have been reducing prices since for ever so these kinda things are really the consequence of finding efficiencies and passing it down due to competition and increasing demand.

...and failed attempts of regulatory capture.

So true..

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google have also been calling for banning their competition, for years now, especially when they have the gall to use the same tactics as OpenAI itself. For example:

https://nypost.com/2026/07/13/business/how-china-is-ripping-...

https://www.techbrew.com/stories/openai-anthropic-google-dis...

Then Altman and Amodei (Amodei is still at it) were declaring that after illegally training on all books (yes it was illegal at that time), we're going to take your jobs and absolutely everything.

You can't be that tonedeaf, frankly threatening, and not expect pushback. Come on.

You think they reduce prices because lobbying didn’t work? Like the last 100 times they did it? What kind of logic is that? I’m questioning this logical chain.

I’m not disputing what you said in essence although the training on books being illegal is laughable.

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