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> how would they make money then?

By acquiring companies and letting the now-internal employees use AI, easily outcompeting any company they didn't acquire

It's somewhat doubtful but even if they did, that'd be much slower progress, achieving the goal.

> easily outcompeting any company

If it were easy they'd be doing that instead.

Everyone is "doing that instead". Every successful company in every industry is heavily using AI at this point.

If that were illegal, the next best option would be AI labs acquiring the companies instead of just selling them tokens.