That’s the answer, the reason they are so anxious to have regulation, liability exemption in some way. “We just followed the law.”
The bastards have created a monster but want the money from it and want the rest of us to take the risk and absolve them of accountability. Musk is their leader, the genius of him is he is a genius serial grifter.
The China, China, China claims about AI center resistance are also a scam. Nobody around here is China influenced. Their motivation is that they do not want their way of life turned upside down regardless of the benefits to them and sure not so the tech oligarchs can add piles of money to their piles of money at our expense. There is no China, China, China influence involved.
Then throw in some regulatory capture where the regulators are soon hired by the regulated companies for million dollar salaries and enough bureaucracy to prevent new competitors from rising up.