AI labs

6 statements across 5 episodes · 0 bullish · 6 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 31, 2025 by Sam Lessin · across every show →

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Jan 31, 2025 negative
Insight
Sam Lessin: AI labs hypocritically protest distillation after scraping the web
“That like you have this thing where like, oh, you want to have it both ways. So you think it's okay to break the economics of the underlying internet you're leveraging, but then you're mad that someone's doing it to you.”
Sam Lessin Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 16:48 #84: China's DeepSeek Shakes the Tech World · More or Less Podcast
May 8, 2026 negative
Opinion
Dave Morin: AI Labs Used Christian Theological Doomerism to Market AI
“They've only used the doomer kind of, we've talked about it at length on this pod. Like it's like a Christian theological doomer. Like we are creating a God. You should fear it. They've used this one version of a message. It's actually ancient spiritual techno…”
Dave Morin May 8, 2026 ▶ 25:48 Why the Met Gala Hates Tech, Elon vs OpenAI Drama, and the Rise of Chinese AI Models · More or Less Podcast
Aug 7, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Morin: Frontier AI research labs will fail to find product-market fit
“LLMs are only going to carry us so far into AI, but all of these labs are not going to find product market fit and business value. Like it's just not going to happen.”
Dave Morin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 31:02 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Aug 7, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: AI labs share the exact same cap tables as SaaS companies
“It's the same. It's the same investors. It's exactly the same cap tables.”
Sam Lessin Aug 7, 2026 ▶ 31:35 Jeff Dean Leaves Google, Airtable Sells, and the Bag-Securing Era · More or Less Podcast
Aug 14, 2026 negative
Opinion
Lessin: AI labs giving equity to the government is cynical bullshit
“That was the most cynical bullshit I've ever heard from my perspective, even though I do actually like Trump accounts and the idea of the index.”
Sam Lessin Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 37:56 Special Edition MOL with Josh Wolfe, Rachel Holt, Scott Belsky, Scott Stanford, and Peter Deng. · More or Less Podcast
Sep 4, 2026 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sam Lessin: AI labs are definitely stealing and training on user data
“Oh, no, to be clear, they're definitely stealing all my data as we go. There's no question about that.”
Sam Lessin Sep 4, 2026 ▶ 24:31 AI Agents Are Going Rogue. Should We Be Worried? │Claude vs. Grok, Tesla vs Waymo, Google vs Canva · More or Less Podcast
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