Are you sure it’s about principles and not primarily the bribery involved? OAI leadership has bribed the administration.

It may be due to principles and the principled stand Anthropic has taken has caused trouble, but they have also not delivered a bribery as far as we can see.

When there is a protection money racket in play, it’s hard for me to take other factors as seriously. This is gangster economics not a philosopher’s circle.

Here’s another take on this with more details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48593212