>I wouldn't call it "half-baked" when it's a well known playbook regularly leveraged by large companies.

Really? Give me some examples.

Alex Tabarrok says: "classic regulatory capture takes time, it’s a process of erosion rather than a battle, it happens in the shadows, in the backrooms, away from the public’s eye." https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/09/wh...

AI is receiving intense public scrutiny, suggesting that "classic regulatory capture" is quite unlikely.

>Companies won't spend the money and time to lobby to use different models and Anthropic knows it.

They already are! See the "Little Tech" lobby.