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Simon Willison

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Supports allowing researchers to use frontier models for competing frontier-LLM development without Anthropic’s development-specific refusals; this scoped position does not establish opposition to every slowdown or safety restriction.

“It would be a whole lot better of they dropped this category of refusals entirely.”