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We're quietly splitting the world into the people who get the smart A.I. and the rest of us who get the safe version of it. Look at what's happening at Anthropic, the company that makes Claude. They built a super smart version called Mythos and only let a few hand picked companies touch it. Most of us got the public one called Fable with the smartest features turned off. Then the government stepped in and told them to cut it off for everyone who is in a U.S. Citizen. So the engineers who actually built it got locked out of their own work. The passport ban is just the start. Real split is going to be money. Big companies are quietly paying for access to raw, unfiltered models. The rest of us get a play chat box that just writes you a poem instead. We've done this before. For most of human history, if you were born a peasant, you stayed a peasant. People in power made sure you never got near the books, the land, or the room where the decisions were made. A.I. is becoming a new version of that. Most of us are getting the safe version. The people in the room are getting the real one. Internet was supposed to fix this. Instead we just built a new version of the same thing. If the smartest thing on Earth's sits behind a paywall, your bank account doesn't just decide your lifestyle anymore. Decides How smart you're allowed to be? Are we entering an intellectual dark age? Tell me below.
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