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Like with ANY kind of science (and, like it or not, that is what "AI" research and products are), the money comes from governments. Real Genius is one of my all time favorite movies (and has influenced my life WAY more than it should) but... anyone with an advanced STEM degree can tell you that the reality is you 100% know where your money is coming from. And you are either a naive moron or you figure out why the US (or UK or FR or RU or CN or...) government is so interested in your work to rapidly generate connections between social media posts and your buddy's really efficient graph search algorithm and...
I am all for shitting on openai/chatgpt for immediately bending over backwards for the us government. Let's not pretend anthropic/claude are paragons of virtues and privacy.