@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz So, from my US perspective, part of the reason anti-AI sentiment gets as hardline as it does is because it's impossible to imagine our government effectively regulating anything. The current government is *de*regulating stuff that was uncontroversial for decades, like power plant emissions and forever chemicals and food safety stuff. But even when we get a new President, Congress has been dysfunctional for at least a decade, and the investors who are pushing this tech so hard are also big campaign donors. Of course, these are all problems we made for ourselves and have to fix ourselves. But that'll take time—like, probably longer than I'll be alive—so pointing that isn't much help to folks who are dealing with the problems of LLM excesses right now.