> The strangest part is that it won't just reject ML research, which I can understand, it will sabotage it silently by using a worse model without revealing it

> The strangest part is that it won't just reject ML research, which I can understand, it will sabotage it silently by using a worse model without revealing it is doing so. My hypothesis is they know they can’t build effective enough guardrails, so scaring people into not trying is how they have decided to stop it.